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Polish rabbi (c–)

This article is about the rabbi. For other uses, see Maghen Abraham (disambiguation).

Abraham Abele Gombiner (Hebrew: אברהם אבלי הלוי גומבינר) (c.

– 5 October ), known as the Magen Avraham, born in Gąbin (Gombin), Poland, was a rabbi, Talmudist and a leading religious authority in the Jewish community of Kalisz, Poland during the seventeenth century.

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His full name is Avraham Abele ben Chaim HaLevi from the town of Gombin. There are texts that list his family name as Kalisz after the city of his residence.^[1] After his parents were killed in during the aftermath of the Chmielnicki massacres of , he moved to live and study with his relative in Leszno, Jacob Isaac Gombiner.

From there he moved to Kalisz where he was appointed as Rosh Yeshiva and judge in the tribunal of Rabbi Israel Spira (who was a son of Rabbi Nathan Nata Spira).

He is known to scholars of Judaism for his Magen Avraham commentary on the Orach Chayim sectio