Abraham Aryeh Loeb B. Judah Ha-Levi

A Talmudic author and rabbi, who lived at Stryzhow (Galicia, Austria) at the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. His works, bearing the general title "Derishat Ari" (A Lion's Comment), contain: (1) "Eben Pinnah" (The Corner-Stone), dealing with the Jewish laws concerning family life; (2) "Otot ha-Shamayim" (The Signs of Heaven), on circumcision, phylacteries, Sabbath, and festivals; (3) "Ḥoḳ u-Mishpaṭ" (Law and Justice), on civil law (Lemberg, 1804; Jitomir, 1805).

Bibliography:

  * Walden, Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash, p. 17;
  * Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 115.



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