Moses Alpalas Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Rabbi
Moses Alpalas
Native-Name-Lang:he
Occupation:rabbi

Moses Alpalas (also spelled Moses Alfalas;) was a rabbi and maggid (preacher) who lived at Salonica about the middle of the sixteenth century.

The name Alpalas is probably the same as the Arabic "al-Fallas" (The Money-Dealer).[1]

Writings

Of his many homiletic and theological writings, there have appeared in print, "Wayaḳhel Mosheh" (And Moses Collected), a collection of sermons (Venice, 1597), and "Hoyl Mosheh" (Moses Was Content), apologetic essays on Judaism and the excellence of the Mosaic law (Venice, 1597).[2]

Notes and References

  1. See The Jewish Quarterly Review xi. 591.

  2. Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography: