Aaron Alfandari

Aaron ben Moses Alfandari (c. 1700–1774, Hebron) (Hebrew: אהרן אלפנדארק‎) was a Talmudic writer born in Smyrna. He emigrated to the Land of Israel (Ottoman Syria at the time) in his old age, where he met Azulai.

Works

He was the author of two works:

• Yad Aharon (Aaron's Hand), a collection of notes on Ṭur Oraḥ Ḥayyim (the first part of which was published in Smyrna in 1735, and the second in Salonica in 1791) and on Ṭur Eben ha-'Ezer (Smyrna, 1756–66)
• Mirkebet ha-Mishneh (The Second Chariot), a treatise on the first part of Maimonides' Yad ha-ḤazaḲah.

He died in Hebron in 1774. His grandson, Isaac Ardit, wrote a eulogy on him in his YeḲar ha-'Erek, Salonica, 1836.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.;
• Heimann Joseph Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 302;
• Joseph Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 40.

See also

• Alfandari

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Alfandari". Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.