ALKALAI, ABRAHAM BEN SAMUEL
- ALKALAI, ABRAHAM BEN SAMUEL
- ALKALAI, ABRAHAM BEN SAMUEL (1750?–1811), Bulgarian rabbi and
codifier. Alkalai, who was apparently born in Salonika, studied under
his uncle Reuben b. Jacob, whose novellae he sometimes quotes in his
works. He served as rabbi of Dupnitsa, where he also headed a yeshivah
(1781). He visited Salonika in 1798, and Adrianople on his way to
Constantinople (1802), as emissary of his community, which was suffering
great hardships. Later he settled in Safed. His best-known work is
Zekhor le-Avraham, in which he arranged alphabetically the
laws of the Shulḥan Arukh (2 vols., Salonika, 1798; vol. 3, addenda,
1815). A second edition of the first two volumes, published by his
nephew Judah Ḥayyim Alkalai, included an abridgment of vol. 3 with his
own additions (1818). He also wrote responsa, Ḥesed
le-Avraham (2 vols., 1813–14). A manuscript volume of his sermons
is in the Jewish Theological Seminary library in New York (no. 9425).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Rosanes, Togarmah, 5 (1938), 160; 6 (1945), 135–8.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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