Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi (Hebrew: בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי) (c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Israel during the 16th century.
[citation needed] Descended from a family of German scholars, most of his life was spent in Egypt Eyalet, where he received his Talmudic education from David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra and Israel de Curial.
During the lifetime of his teachers, Ashkenazi was regarded as one of the highest authorities in the Orient, and counted Isaac Luria and Solomon Adeni among his pupils.
However this arrangement between the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim seems to have been solely due to the personal influence of Ashkenazi; asvit ended immediately after his death.
This work, as its title indicates,[b] is a collection of glosses on the greater part of the Talmud, in the style of the Tosafot, including much original and foreign material.
Solomon Adeni, his student, edited the annotations into the commentary to Kodashim as it exists today (both versions), including a vast quantity of original material.