Judah ben Jacob Najar

Judah ben Jacob Najar (d. 1830) was a Talmudic scholar, author, "dayyan," nephew of Judah Cohen Tanugi, and member of the rabbinate in Tunis, where he died at an advanced age. He was the author of the following works:
* "Limmude Adonai" (Leghorn, 1787), containing 204 hermeneutic rules bearing on Talmudical subjects, together with some funeral orations
*"Alfe Yehudah" (ib. 1794), commentary on Shebu'ot, with an appendix
* "Shebut Yehudah" (ib. 1801), commentary on the Mekilta, with text
* "Mo'ade Adonai" (ib. 1808), commentary on parts of the "SeMaG", published together with the commentaries of Elijah Mizraḥi, Solomon Luria, and Isaac Stein (to this work has been added "Ḳonṭres Sheni" to the work "Shewut Yehudah," with separate pagination)
* "Simḥat Yehudah" (Pisa, 1816), commentary on Keritot, Soferim, Semaḥot, Kallah, Derek Ereẓ, and Abot de-Rabbi Natan
* "Ḥayye Yehudah" (ib. 1816), commentary on Gerim, Abodim, and Kuttim
* "Ohole Yehudah" (Leghorn, 1823), commentary on Sifre, with text and some decisions.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

*Cazés, Notes Bibliographiques, pp. 261 et seq.;
*Joseph Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 604;
*Julius Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 11.

External links

* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=48&letter=N&search=Najara#125 Jewish Encyclopedia article on NAJARA]

References

*JewishEncyclopedia