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Moses Alpalas

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Rabbi
Moses Alpalas
משה אלפלס
Title page of "Hoyl Mosheh",
Venice, 1597
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Moses Alpalas (also spelled Moses Alfalas; Hebrew: משה אלפלס) was a rabbi and maggid (preacher) who lived at Salonica about the middle of the sixteenth century.

The name Alpalas is probably the same as the Arabic "al-Fallas" (The Money-Dealer).[1][2]

Writings

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Of his many homiletic and theological writings, there have appeared in print, "Wayaḳhel Mosheh" (And Moses Collected), a collection of sermons (Venice, 1597), and "Hoyl Mosheh" (Moses Was Content), apologetic essays on Judaism and the excellence of the Mosaic law (Venice, 1597).[2]

References

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  1. ^ See The Jewish Quarterly Review xi. 591.
  2. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainMeyer Kayserling (1901–1906). "ALPALAS (ALFALAS), MOSES". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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