Ashkenazi, Judah ben Simeon
ASHKENAZI, JUDAH BEN SIMEON
ASHKENAZI, JUDAH BEN SIMEON (18th century), German codifier. Ashkenazi was born in Frankfurt on the Main where his father was a scribe and parnas of the community. Ashkenazi was serving as dayyan in Tiktin, Poland, before 1742. He wrote Ba'er Heitev, a brief commentary on Joseph Caro's Shul?an Arukh. His commentary on Ora? ?ayyim was published together with the text (Amsterdam, 1742); and on Yoreh De'ah (ibid., 1736; with additions, 1777); on Even ha-Ezer (ibid., 1739); ?oshen Mishpat was not published.
Three other works on the Shul?an Arukh were published under the name Ba'er Heitev. These are not so much commentaries as résumés of the opinions of other codifiers. They are by Isaiah b. Abraham ha-Levi on Ora? ?ayyim (ibid., 1708); Moses b. Simeon Frankfurt on ?oshen Mishpat (ibid., 1749); and by *Zechariah Mendel b. Aryeh Leib of Belz on Yoreh De'ah (ibid., 1754) and ?oshen Mishpat (ibid., 1764). In later editions of the Shul?an Arukh the Ba'er Heitev of Ashkenazi on Ora? ?ayyim and Even ha-Ezer are published, while those of Yoreh De'ah and ?oshen Mishpat are by Zechariah Mendel of Belz.
bibliography:
Benjacob, O?ar, 585–7; S.M. Chones, Toledot ha-Posekim (1910), 92–93; H. Tchernowitz, Toledot ha-Posekim, 2 (1947), 306–12. add. bibliography: M. Nadav, Pinkas Kehal Tiktin, 1 (1996), 22, 26, 43, 48, 51, 63.
[Abraham David]