MOSES SHOHAM BEN DAN OF DOLINA

MOSES SHOHAM BEN DAN OF DOLINA (end of 18th century), ḥasidic author and preacher in Dolina in eastern Galicia. He was a disciple of israel b. eliezer Ba'al Shem Tov and was related by marriage to jehiel michael of zloczow . He quotes traditions and teachings of both in his works: Divrei Moshe (Polonnoye, 1801), commentaries on the Torah; Imrei Shoham (1880), on the tractates Ketubbot, Kiddushin and Bava Meẓia; Seraf Peri Eẓ Ḥayyim (1866), on the Peri Eẓ Ḥayyim of Ḥayyim Vital . -BIBLIOGRAPHY: S.Y. Agnon, Ha-Esh ve-ha-Eẓim (1962), 106–7; M. Kamelhar, Ha-Ḥasidut ve-Ẓiyyon (1963), 104–6.