Solomon ben Moses Chelm

Solomon ben Moses Chelm
Personal life
Bornc. 1717
Samoscz, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died(1781-07-13)13 July 1781
Salonica, Ottoman Greece
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
Main workMerkevet ha-mishneh
Yahrtzeit21 Tammuz 5541

Solomon ben Moses Chelm (Hebrew: שְׁלֹמֹה בֵּן מֹשֶׁה מִחֶלְמָא, romanized: Shlomo ben Moshe mi-Ḥelma; c. 1717 – 14 July 1781) was a Polish rabbi, best known for his multi-volume work Merkevet ha-mishneh. Alongside his expertise in rabbinics, he was distinguished as a grammarian and mathematician. He is considered one of the first Maskilim in Poland.

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