ALEGRE, ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON
- ALEGRE, ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON
- ALEGRE, ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON (1560–1652), rabbi and scholar of
Constantinople. Ḥayyim Alfandari\>\> in his Maggid
me-Reshit records Alegre's controversy on a halakhic issue
(responsa 4, 5). His own responsa were published together with those of
Jacob Shalem Ashkenazi (Sephardi emissary of Jerusalem), in Salonika in
1793. Alegre is more widely known by the title of his extensive
commentary on Maimonides' Sefer ha-Mitzvot, Lev Sameʾaḥ,
(Constantinople, 1652), printed in the Israeli edition of the
Mishneh Torah (vol. 1, 1962). In this work, which took 40
years to complete, Alegre analyzes the 14 principles defined by
Maimonides in the introduction to his Sefer ha-Mitzvot and
those on which he based the enumeration and classification of the
mitzvot. He particularly justifies Maimonides against the
strictures of Naḥmanides on the Sefer ha-Mitzvot. His
son-in-law, Levi Teglio, in a foreword to the Lev Sameʾaḥ.
states that Alegre wrote a homiletical work and a book of responsa.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Azulai, s.v. Abraham Alegre; Michael, Or, no. 238; Rosanes,
Togarmah, 3 (1938), 128; Fuenn, Keneset, 10.
(Abraham Hirsch Rabinowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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