HEILBUT, ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH:
German Talmudist; lived at Altona in the middle of the eighteenth century. In July, 1751, he wrote there "Binah Rabbah," a commentary to the Midrash Rabbah and on the Midrashim to Psalms; Proverbs, and Samuel. Chief attention is given to words not foundin the "'Aruk." The work is still unpublished. He was also the author of "'Aruk Ḳaṭon," a vocabulary of the Talmud (also unpublished); and of "Kaf Naḥat," a commentary on Pirḳe Abot (Altona, 1779).
Bibliography:
- Neubauer, Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS. No. 148;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 246, No. 281.
