ABRAHAM ḤAYYIM BEN GEDALIAH
- ABRAHAM ḤAYYIM BEN GEDALIAH
- ABRAHAM ḤAYYIM BEN GEDALIAH (1750–1816), Galician rabbi.
Abraham studied under his father Gedaliah b. Benjamin Wolf, who was
av bet din in Zloczow. He was a disciple of dov baer
the "Maggid of Mezhirech," jacob joseph of Polonnoye, and
jehiel michel of zloczow . He was also a pupil of the two
brothers: Samuel Shmelka Horowitz of Nikolsburg and Phinehas Levi
Horowitz, his first father-in-law. When Issachar Baer (his father-in-law
by his second marriage) immigrated to Ereẓ Israel, Abraham Ḥayyim
succeeded him as av bet din of Zloczow. He was a brilliant
exegete and facile writer, possessed of an easy, graceful style, and is
referred to as a "learned exponent of ḥasidic thought." His Oraḥ
Ḥayyim (Zolkiew, 1817) on the Bible is a treasury of thoughts
and sayings of the ḥasidic rabbis. It was published posthumously by his
stepson, Joseph Azriel b. Ḥayyim Aryeh Leibush, with an introduction by
Ephraim Zalman Margolioth, who praises his piety and charity and gives
biographical details. Abraham Ḥayyim wrote a commentary on Pirkei
Avot, Peri Ḥayyim (1873), and a commentary on the
Haggadah, under the same name (1873).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Walden, Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash, 2 (1864), 4a, no. 73;
S. Buber, Kiryah Nisgavah (1903), 20–21, s.v.
Gedaliah; Y. Raphael, Sefer ha-Ḥasidut (1947), 67.
(Mordecai Ben-Yehezkiel)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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