Chananel Ben-chushiel

Chananel Ben-Chushiel a rabbi of Kairwan, in Africa, was born about 990, and died about 1050. He was one of the greatest teachers of his time, and is the author of a commentary on the Pentateuch and Ezekiel. He also wrote a commentary on the Talmudic treatise Makkoth. See Dr. Berliner's Migdal Channel, sein Leben und Schriften, etc. (Leipsic, 1876); First, Bibl. ud. 1, 163; De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), p. 75. CB. P.)