Abraham Lichtstein ( he, אברהם לכטשטיין) was a Polish

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and

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ist. He served as the Av Beis Din of

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, Poland and authored a commentary on the

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entitled ''Kanfei Nesharim'' ( he, כנפי נשרים, "Wings of Eagles"). Lichtstein was born in Białystok at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the son of Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Lichtstein and grandson of Rabbi Kalman of Białystok. His major work, ''Kanfei Nesharim'', was published in

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in 1881. The ''

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from passages of the

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#''Abach Soferim'', miscellanea #''Machazeh Abraham'', consisting of sermons on each section of the Torah #''Ner Mitzvah'', a treatment of the number of the precepts according to

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#''Shiyyure Miẓwah'', a treatment of the additional precepts according to

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, Moses ben Jacob of Coucy, and

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#''Milchemet Mitzvah'', on the disputes among various authorities concerning the numbering of the precepts by Maimonides #''Torat ha-Ḳorbanot'', on the Levitical laws of offerings and on the order of the High Priest's service in the

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#''Sha'arei Tziyyon'', orations on theological subjects The whole work was published together with the text of the Pentateuch (Josefow, 1829) and republished without the text (Vilna, 1894). Lichtstein also authored a commentary on the ''Sefer ha-Tappuach'', which was published together with the text in the Grodno edition of 1799.

References

External links

''Sefer Kanfei Nesharim'' (Hebrew download)
* ''Jewish Encyclopedia''
“Lichtstein, Abraham B. Eliezer Lipman”
by Solomon Schechter & N. T. London (1906). Now in public domain. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lichtstein, Abraham Lipman 19th-century deaths Bible commentators People from Białystok 18th-century births 19th-century Polish rabbis