Pimentel, Abraham Ha-kohen

Pimentel, Abraham ha-Kohen a Jewish rabbi, flourished about the middle of the 17th century. He was a pupil of Saul Mortera, and afterwards rabbi at the academy Keter Tora of Amsterdam, and lastly rabbi of the congregation of the Sephardim at Hamburg. He wrote מנחת כחןon Jewish rites, in three parts (Amsterd. 1668): — academic treatises in the Portuguese language, under the title Questoens et discoursos academicos, que compoz et recitan na illustre Academia תורה כתר etjuntamente alguns sermons compostos por o dito (Hamb. 1688). See Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1, 97; 3, 58 sq.; De Rossi, Dizionario storico degli autori Ebrei, p. 264 (Germ. transl. by Hamberger); First, Bibl. Jud. 3, 101. (B. P.)