Rav Avrohom Abali HaLevi Gumbiner zt"l
הרב אברהם אבלי הלוי בן חיים גומבינר זצ"ל
Tishrei 9 , 5443
Known As: Magen Avrohom
Father's Name: Chaim
Rav Avrohom Abali HaLevi Gumbiner zt"l
Rav Avrohom was the son of Rav Chaim HY”D, who was martyred by Cossacks during Chmielnicki massacres of 5415.
Rav Avrohom was born in Gumbin, Poland around 5396. He was a child prodigy and mastered Shas and poskim at a young age. His first position was as Rav of Kalisch, where he opened a Yeshiva as well. Many Gedolei Yisrael were graduates of his Yeshiva.
He authored seforim on all four volumes of Shulchon Aruch, as well as on Shas and deroshos. Due to his great humility, however, he did not want to publish them all and no one knew of their existence. Due to the insistence of friends, talmidim, colleagues, and family, he finally relented and agreed to publish his work on Orach Chaim only because, as he himself wrote in his own introduction, the other volumes of Shulchon Aruch already had commentaries, whereas Orach Chaim did not. His sefer was well received among Klal Yisrael and accepted as binding.
Many other Gedolim authored supercommentaries to his commentary, including the authors of Tosefes Shabbos, Mekor Chaim, Pri Megodim, Bigdei Yesha, and Machatzis HaShekel. He also published Zayis Raanon on the Yalkut Shimoni, and Shemen Sosson deroshos as well. His son-in-law, Rav Moshe Yekusiel Koifman, Av Bais Din Kutna, wrote a sefer, Lechem HaPonim on Yoreh De’a; in it, were printed his father-in-law’s chiddushim to the Tosefta Nezikin.
His son, Rav Chaim of Klimantuv, published the Mogen Avrohom and named it after his father, Mogen Avrohom Ner Yisrael.
He also wrote Zayis Ra'anan, a commentary on the popular midrash Yalkut Shimoni.
He also authored a commentary to the works of the Tosefta on the section of Nezikin, published by his grandson.
He was niftar at the young age of forty-six on Erev Yom Kippur 5443.