ELIJAH BEN AARON BEN MOSES
- ELIJAH BEN AARON BEN MOSES
- ELIJAH BEN AARON BEN MOSES (also referred to as
Ibn-'Abd-al-Wālī or ha-dayyan, "the judge"),
Karaite author in Jerusalem; according to A. Firkovich , he
lived in the 15th century, and according to P.F. Fraenkel
(see bibliography) in the 16th. He wrote the following works
in Arabic: Shurūṭ al-Dhabaḥāt, on the laws of ritual
slaughter; a key (fihrist) to judah hadassi 's
Eshkol ha-Kofer; collectanea (manuscript in Jewish
Theological Seminary, N.Y., presumably the same as
Sefer le-Eliyahu ha-Dayyan, referred to in S. Pinsker,
Likkutei Kadmoniyyot (1860), 192 no. 14); and a commentary on
the weekly portion Ha'azinu. He also composed Shevaḥ fı
al-Torah, a prayer on opening the Ark.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fraenkel, in: MGWJ, 32 (1883), 400–15; Mann, Texts,
index, S.V. Elijah Haddayan.
(Jakob Naphtali Hertz Simchoni)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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