Bezalel Ashkenazi

Bezalel Ashkenazi
Personal life
Bornc. 1520
probably the Land of Israel
Diedc. 1592
Religious life
ReligionJudaism

Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi (Hebrew: בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי) (c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Israel during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of the Shitah Mekubetzet, a commentary on the Talmud. Among his disciples were Isaac Luria and Solomon Adeni.