(Ḥayyim) Moses Amarillo (), was a rabbi at

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

during the first half of the eighteenth century.

Works

He edited, and often annotated, the works of his father, Solomon Amarillo, and is the author of a collection of '' hiddushim'' (novellæ) on legal questions treated of by

Maimonides Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (, ) and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (), was a Sephardic rabbi and Jewish philosophy, philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah schola ...

. To this are added two separate collections of opinions and comments on criminal law, the first dealing with the payment of indemnities, the second with the laws concerning the sale, loss, and robbery of property. The three parts appeared together, under the title "''Halakah le-Mosheh''" (The Decision of Moses), Thessaloniki, 1756. To a collection of his

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which he had previously published, he gave the title "''Debar Mosheh''" (The Word of Moses), Thessaloniki, 1742–50.
''Jewish Encyclopedia'' bibliography: * Benjacob, ''Oẓar ha-Sefarim'', pp
102138
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Bibliotheca Friedlandiana
', No. 2059, p. 253.

References

18th-century rabbis Rabbis from Thessaloniki Place of birth missing Place of death missing Year of birth missing Year of death missing Authors of Rabbinic works {{Greece-rabbi-stub