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Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai (c. 1570–1643) (Hebrew: אברהם בן מרדכי אזולאי) was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fes, Morocco. In 1599 he moved to Palestine and settled in Hebron.〔Dov Zlotnick, "The Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Azulai to the Mishnah", in: ''Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research'', Vol. 40, 1972, pp. 147-168〕 In Hebron he wrote a commentary on the Zohar under the title ''Kiryat Arba'' (City of Arba (in Hebrew four); Gen. xxiii.2). The plague of 1619 drove him from his new home, and while in Gaza, where he found refuge, he wrote his Kabalistic work ''Chesed le-Abraham'' (Mercy to Abraham; Micah vii.20). It was published after the author's death by Meshullam Zalman ben Abraham Berak of Gorice, in Amsterdam, 1685. The work is a treatise with an introduction, אבן השתיה (''The Cornerstone''; see Talmud Yoma 53b), and is divided into seven "fountains" (see Zecharia iii.9), each fountain being subdivided into a number of "streams." A specimen of the work Chesed Le-Avraham, taken from the fifth fountain, twenty-fourth stream, p. 57d, of the Amsterdam edition: He died in Hebron on November 6, 1643.〔Michael Laitman, ''Gems of Wisdom: Words of the Great Kabbalists from All Generations'', Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2011, p. 413-414〕 One of the manuscripts that he left to his descendant, Hayyim Joseph David is also published. It is a Kabalistic commentary on the Bible, ''Ba'ale Berit Abraham'' (Abraham's Confederates; see Gen. xiv.13), Vilna, 1873. *(Pirkei Avot ) – a selection from Chesed le-Abraham ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abraham Azulai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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