R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi (Hoil Moshe)

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  • Hebrew name – R. Moshe Yitzchak Ashkenazi (ר' משה יצחק אשכנזי)
  • Italian name – Moisè Tedeschi¹
• Dates – June 6, 1821² – June 17, 1898
• Location – Trieste, Italy
• Occupation – R. Moshe Ashkenazi worked as a teacher at the local Talmud Torah.
• Family – For a full overview of the Hoil Moshe's family, see his autobiography, in שמחת הרגל, pp. 51-53.
• Teachers – R. Shemuel Chayyim Zalman,³ Shadal
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• Biblical commentaries – Commentaries on all 24 books of Tanakh [Links: Torah and Neviim Rishonim, Yeshayahu, Yirmeyahu, and Yechezkel, Yirmeyahu 47-52, Yechezkel 30-48, Daniel, Ezra, and Divrei HaYamim, Terei Asar – Introduction⁴ and Commentary, Tehillim, Mishlei and Five Megillot, Iyyov]
• Jewish thought – Mussar Melakhim (written 1873, published 1878),⁵ Simchat HaRegel (written 1886, published 1891),⁶ Hebrew translation of Ruach Yisrael by Mordechai Mortara (1894)
• Hebrew Language – Italian translation of Zekher Rav by Binyamin Musaphia (1878),⁷ Otzar Nirdefei Lashon Ivri (1879),⁸

• Topical – Hoil Moshe comments on about a sixth of the verses in the Torah.⁹ His commentary is selective in what it addresses, and is not a verse by verse commentary.¹⁰
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The one and only edition of the Hoil Moshe was published by R. Moshe Ashkenazi himself. The autograph manuscript of the Torah commentary which was written in 1864 was recently owned by Michael Krupp, but was then sold,¹¹ and we have not been able to discover its whereabouts.

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• Teachers – Shadal¹²
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