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Ḥazḳuni, Abraham ben Hezekiah

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

Galician Talmudist and cabalist; born at Cracow in 1627; died at Tripoli, Syria. He was a disciple of Yom-Ṭob Lipman Heller, and the author of the following works: "Zot Ḥuḳḳat ha-Torah," an abridgment of Isaac Luria's "Sefer ha-Kawwanot," Venice, 1659; "Shete Yadot," sermons arranged in the order of the sections of the Pentateuch, published by the son of the author, Amsterdam, 1726; a commentary on the Zohar divided into two volumes, "Yad Ramah" and "Yad Adonai," still extant in manuscript (Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." Nos. 1729b, 1853); "Zera' Abraham," in two volumes, the first containing sermons, the second novellæ on Beẓah and Mo'ed Ḳaṭan, quoted in the first-named work; "Yodea' Binah," cited by the son of the author in his preface to the "Shete Yadot."

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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Ḥazḳuni, Abraham ben Hezekiah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/azuni-abraham-ben-hezekiah.html. 1901.