Avraam Haim Shor

R' Avraham was rabbi in Satanov, ABD and RM in Belz (about 1624) and according to Lowenstein (Ir Tehila) rabbi in Lvov; he died in Belz 9 Shvat 5492 and is buried in Lvov.

R'Avraham was an author and interpreter of Jewish law. While still a youth, he and his friend R'Mordhai Asher, ABD and RM in Brzezany established a Bet Midrash and invited outstanding young rabbi's to join them in a program to study and clarify the Order Kidushin, which neither Rashi or the Tosaphists had succeeded in unraveling. Resulting corrections and clarifications were compiled in the form of a hand- written manuscript Zoan Kedoshim (citing himself and R'Mordhai Asher as authors). It was published by R'Avraham's grandson R'Haim b Ozer (Vansbeck, 1729).

His major work Torat Haim - novellae relating to the six orders of the Talmud (part 1 Lublin, 1624; part 2 Krakow 1636) was republished many times. Kontres Bedek Habayit (notes on the part of the Shulhan Aruch - Eban Haezer - which deals with divorce) was printed with Aryeh b Davids Gur Aryeh (Amsterdam, 1733). He is cited by R'Binyamin Salnik in Masaot Binyamin and by Delmedigo in Elim.

The identity of his wife is not known. The author of Elef Margaliot speculates that he may have married his niece, daughter of R'Efraim Zalman [Tevuot] Shor (this could explain claim that his grandchildren were descendents of R'Shaul Wahl).