Shlomo Zalman Halevi Abel (1857–1886) was one of the founders of the

Telz Yeshiva Telshe Yeshiva (; ; also spelled ''Telz'') is a yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio, formerly located in Telšiai, Lithuania. During World War II the yeshiva relocated to Cleveland, Ohio in the United States and is now known as the Rabbinical College of ...

and author of ''Beis Shlomo''.

Biography

Abel was born March 11, (15

Adar Adar (Hebrew: , ; from Akkadian ''adaru'') is the sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the religious year on the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to the month of March in the Gregorian calendar. It is a month of 29 days. ...

) 1857 at Novomyesto-Sugint (now

Žemaičių Naumiestis Žemaičių Naumiestis (, ) is a town in Klaipėda county, Šilutė district municipality in western Lithuania, between Klaipėda and Kaliningrad Oblast. The rivers Šustis, Šelmuo and Lendra flow through it. For centuries, it was located at the ...

) in the

Kovno Governorate Kovno Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kovno (Kaunas). It was formed on 18 December 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, Nicholas I from the western part of Vilna Govern ...

of the

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(present-day

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). In 1875, together with Meir Atlas and Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim, he assisted in establishing the

and subsequently taught there. He was the brother-in-law of

Shimon Shkop Shimon Yehuda Shkop (; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of Grodno. Having innovated a style of Torah study, applying both to Halacha and to Talmud, he was widely r ...

. Abel died on Tuesday October 12, (13th

Tishrei Tishrei () or Tishri (; ''tīšrē'' or ''tīšrī''; from Akkadian ''tašrītu'' "beginning", from ''šurrû'' "to begin") is the first month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year (wh ...

) 1886.

Works

*''Beis Shlomo'', published posthumously in Vilna in 1893, deals primarily with aspects of

Halacha ''Halakha'' ( ; , ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah. ''Halakha'' is based on biblical commandments ('' mi ...

pertaining to financial matters.

References

Jewish Encyclopedia: ABEL, SOLOMON BEN KALMAN HALEVI
1857 births 1886 deaths People from Šilutė District Municipality People from Rossiyensky Uyezd Lithuanian Haredi rabbis 19th-century rabbis from the Russian Empire Russian Haredi rabbis {{Lithuania-rabbi-stub