SAMUEL HA-KOHEN:

By: Herman Rosenthal, A. S. Waldstein

Rabbi of the sixteenth century. He was the author of the following works: "Derek Ḥayyim" (Constantinople, n.d.), on the 613 precepts; "Ner Miẓwah" (Venice, 1598), seventeen homilies on the thirteen articles of faith; and "Torah Or" (ib. 1605), homilies on the Pentateuch.

H. R. A. S. W.