Great-grandson of Samuel Edels (MaHaRSHA); rabbi of Pollno, Lithuania, and chief rabbi of the district; flourished in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Or Torah" (Lublin, 1672), commentaries and sermons on the Pentateuch; and he included in his work several "peshaṭim" by his great-grandfather.
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2692;
- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 92;
- Sternberg, Gesch. der Juden in Polen, p. 185.
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