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 on 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 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.)