Abraham ben Benjamin Ze'ev Brisker (Hebrew: אברהם בן בנימן זאב; died 1700) was a Polish-Lithuanian Jewish writer.
Biography
editFollowing the expulsion of Jews from Lithuania in 1655, Abraham moved to Vienna, where he studied under the kabbalist Rabbi Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz.[1] On the expulsion of the Jews from that city in 1670, he went to Brest-Litovsk, where he married a daughter of Elijah Lipschütz and continued his studies under Rabbi Mordecai Guenzburg and Rabbi Ẓevi Hirsch. Abraham represented Brest-Litovsk at the 1683 meeting of the Council of the Lands in Lublin.[1]
Despite expressing a desire to emigrate to the Holy Land, this intention was never realized.[1]
Work
editAbraham was the author of the following works:
- Asarah Ma'amarot [Ten Words]. Frankfurt-on-the-Oder. 1680. On the ten divine words which, according to Pirkei Avot, were used in the creation of the world.
- Zeʾēv, Avrāhām Ben-Binyāmîn (1685). Zera' Avraham [Abraham's Seed]. Sulzbach. On the connections between the weekly Torah portions.
- Perush 'al 'Eser 'Atarot [Commentary on the Ten Crowns]. Frankfurt-on-the-Oder. 1698. A kabbalistic treatise on the Ten Commandments.[2]
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bloch, Philipp (1901). "Abraham ben Benjamin Ze'eb Brisker". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 99.
- ^ a b c Horowitz, Yehoshua (2007). "Abraham ben Benjamin Ze'ev Brisker". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). "Abraham b. Benjamin Seeb". Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 670.