About Moses Amarillo
Lived 1696 – 1748 (aged 51–52). Moses Amarillo was a Turkish and Greek rabbi.
(Ḥayyim) Moses Amarillo , was a rabbi at Thessaloniki during the first half of the eighteenth century.
Works He edited, and often annotated, the works of his father, Solomon Amarillo, and is the author of a collection of hiddushim (novellæ) on legal questions treated of by Maimonides. To this are added two separate collections of opinions and comments on criminal law, the first dealing with the payment of indemnities, the second with the laws concerning the sale, loss, and robbery of property. The three parts appeared together, under the title "Halakah le-Mosheh" (The Decision of Moses), Thessaloniki, 1756. To a collection of his responsa which he had previously published, he gave the title "Debar Mosheh" (The Word of Moses), Thessaloniki, 1742–50.
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Who was Moses Amarillo?
18th-century Greek rabbi
When was Moses Amarillo born?
Moses Amarillo was born in 1696 in Thessaloniki.
When did Moses Amarillo die?
Moses Amarillo died in 1748.
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Moses Amarillo was a rabbi.
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Moses Amarillo was Turkish and Greek.
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