Abraham de Boton

Abraham Hiyya de Boton (c. 1560 – c. 1605) (Hebrew: אברהם די בוטון) was a Talmudist and rabbi, a pupil of Samuel de Medina, who later dwelt for the most part at Salonica as rabbi and leader of a Talmudic academy.

It is a commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, especially on those passages which apparently contradict the Talmud.

At the same time, Boton endeavors to establish harmony between the seeming discrepancies by every possible method of interpretation.

The work is now widespread, and is incorporated with most editions of the Mishneh Torah that have appeared in the last two centuries.

This aspersion loses force through the fact that though Kalai lived in the same city, he never made this claim against Boton publicly.