Judah Ashkenazi

Judah ben Simon Sofer Frankfurt Ashkenazi was a Polish commentator on the Shulchan Aruch. He officiated as "dayyan" at Tikotzin, Poland, in the first half of the eighteenth century.

Main work

He wrote Ba'er Hetev, which comments briefly on the first three parts of the Shulchan Aruch. A similar commentary on the fourth part of the Shulchan Aruch — that is, on the "Choshen Mishpat" — was written by Rabbi Moses Frankfurter, dayyan of Amsterdam. Ashkenazi's work was appended to the Shulchan Aruch in the editions of Amsterdam, 1753 and 1760, and went through many editions.