Hurwitz, Ḥayyim Ben Joshua Moses Abraham Ha-Levi

Russian rabbi in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of: "Sefer Mayim Ḥayyim," explanations of the Pentateuch and the five Megillot (Dyhernfurth, 1690); "Sefer Mayim Ḥayyim Sheni," supplement to the above-mentioned work (ib. 1703); "Sefer Naḥalat Ḥayyim," novellæ on several Talmudical treatises, with an index (Wilmersdorf, 1713; 2d ed., without index, 1722); "Sefer Naḥalat Ḥayyim Sheni," commentaries on the Pentateuch (Wilmersdorf, 1714).

Bibliography:

  * Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. i., iii., No. 612;
  * Nepi-Ghirondi, Toledot Gedole Yisrael, p. 102;
  * Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 409;
  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 827;
  * Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. 324, 396;
  * Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, i. 347.



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