Solomon Adeni

Yemenite scholar and rabbi in Hebron, most famous for his extensive commentary on the Mishnah, "Melechet Shlomo", which took 30 years to complete. He was born in Yemen and moved together with his family to the Holy Land as a young boy. After settling in Jerusalem, he became a student of R' Betzalel Ashkenazi and R' Chaim Vital. He suffered from abject poverty and many other challenges, as described in the introduction to his work, but these tribulations did not prevent him from total devotion to Torah study. He eventually moved to Hebron, where he wrote his monumental commentary.