Abraham Azulai
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Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai | |
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אברהם בן מרדכי אזולאי | |
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| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Fez, Morocco |
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| Nationality | Moroccan, Ottoman Palestinian Jew |
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| Known for | Commentary on the Zohar, Chesed le-Abraham |
| Occupation | Kabbalistic author and commentator |
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| Religion | Judaism |
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Biography
In Hebron, Azulai wrote a commentary on the Zohar under the title Kiryat Arba (City of Arba (in Hebrew four); Gen. xxiii.2). The plague of 1619 drove him from his new home, and while in Gaza, where he found refuge, he wrote his Kabalistic work Chesed le-Abraham (Mercy to Abraham; Book of Micah vii.20). It was published after the author's death by Meshullam Zalman ben Abraham Berak of Gorice, in Amsterdam, 1685. The work is a treatise with an introduction, Page Template:Script/styles hebrew.css has no content.אבן השתיה (The Cornerstone; see Talmud Yoma 53b), and is divided into seven "fountains" (Book of Zechariah iii.9), each fountain being subdivided into a number of "streams." A specimen of the work Chesed Le-Avraham, taken from the fifth fountain, twenty-fourth stream, p. 57d, of the Amsterdam edition: Template:Quote A popular story about Rabbi Azulai is that of how he retrieved the sultan's sword. When the Ottoman sultan visited Hebron, his precious sword fell into the Cave of Machpela. Anyone sent down to retrieve it disappeared. Only Rabbi Azulai was able to descend into the cave and retrieve the sword.[2][3][4][5][6]
He died in Hebron on November 6, 1643 and is buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Hebron.[7]
One of the manuscripts that he left to his descendant, Chaim Yosef David Azulai, is also published. It is a Kabalistic commentary on the Hebrew Bible, Ba'ale Berit Abraham (Abraham's Confederates; see Book of Genesis xiv.13), Vilna, 1873.
- Pirkei Avot – a selection from Chesed le-Abraham
References
- ^ Dov Zlotnick, "The Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Azulai to the Mishnah", in: Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 40, 1972, pp. 147-168
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rabbi Abraham Azulai and The Sultan's Sword". the Jewish Community of Hebron. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Auerbach, Jerold S. (2009-07-16). Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780742566170.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rabbi Avraham Azoulay". www.hevratpinto.org. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rabbi Avraham Azulai - RabbiShimon.com- Tzadikim list".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Fallen Sword of the Sultan - Chabad.org".
- ^ Michael Laitman, Gems of Wisdom: Words of the Great Kabbalists from All Generations, Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2011, p. 413-414
Jewish Encyclopedia
- Azoulay, Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.;
- Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 196;
- Julius Fürst, Bibliotheca Judaica, i.67;
- Michael, Heimann Joseph (1891). Or ha-Ḥayyim. Frankfort-on-the-Main. p. 12.
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