ALSHEKH, MOSES BEN HAYYIM

(fl. 16th cent)

   Pal-estinian biblical commentator and talmudist. Born in Adrianople, he settled in Safed. He was a halakhic authority, a teacher in talmudic academies, a preacher, and a member of the rabbinical court of Joseph Caro. He reworked his sermons into commentaries on most of the books of the Bible.