Magen Avrahamמגן אברהם
Kalisz · 1665
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Avraham Abele Gombiner
Avraham Abele Gombiner
Also known as The Magen Avraham
1635 CE–1682 CE · Acharonim · Gombin
Rabbi Avraham Abele Gombiner (c. 1635–1682), known as the Magen Avraham after his great work, was one of the two most important commentators on the Orach Chaim section of the Shulchan Aruch. Orphaned young amid the upheavals of his time, he settled in Kalisz, where he served as rosh yeshiva and a judge. Written between 1665 and 1671, his Magen Avraham wove the rulings of earlier authorities — and, distinctively, the Kabbalistic traditions of the Arizal — into a dense, demanding commentary that became indispensable to the practice of Jewish law, shaping every later authority on daily and Sabbath observance, including the Mishnah Berurah and the Aruch HaShulchan.
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Born in Gombin, he lost both parents in the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1649 and fled the town's destruction in 1655 at the age of twenty.
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