Solomon Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea

Solomon Aviad Sar-Shalom Basilea (; –1743) was an Italian rabbi and writer who served as Av Beit Din of Mantua.

Life Basilea was instructed in religion and Kabbalah by his father, Menahem Samson ben Solomon of Mantua (died 1693 at Mantua), a rabbi in Alessandria, Italy, and Chief Rabbi at Mantua. His Hebrew name, Aviad Sar-Shalom, derived from the Biblical verse Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom in Isaiah 9, bears testimony to the Messianic hopes of his kinsman. He was reared under the eyes of Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto, of Vital Norzi, of the Segrès; his chief teacher was Judah Brieli; and his fellow-student was Isaac Lampronti, the author of (Hebrew: ). upon the principles of the calendar, between 1694 and 1701, and wrote a preface for his treatise entitled Nayer ha-Yamim (A Paper on the Years) (Günzburg Collection, Nos. 312, 579); in 1727 he commenced to publish Luaḥ or Pocket Daily Calendar: it appeared at Mantua in 32mo, and included the dates of the Christian festivals. under the title of Emunat Ḥakamim (The Faith of the Wise). The work includes quotations from Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Averroes, Avicenna, Copernicus, Fr. Piccolomini, I. Cotogno (De Triplici Statu Animi), and others. Jacob Emden attempted to refute the book in his (Hebrew: ). In 1742, he affixed his approbation to Solomon Norzi's work (Hebrew: ), having examined an incomplete manuscript of the same (Letter 36 of the epistolary collection in the Friedländ library); but he died on the last day of Tabernacles, 1743, without having witnessed its completion.