Shlomo Zalman Halevi Abel (1857-1886) was one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva and author of Beis Shlomo.

Abel was born on Wednesday March 11, (15th Adar

Adar

Adar is the sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a winter month of 29 days...

) 1857 at Novomyesto-Sugint (Neustadt

Neustadt

- Germany :* in Baden-Württemberg:** Titisee-Neustadt, a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald* in Bavaria:** Bad Neustadt an der Saale, the capital of the Rhön-Grabfeld district...

) in Lithuania

Lithuania

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In 1875, together with Meir Atlas

Meir Atlas

Meir Atlas was the rabbi of numerous communities in pre-World War II Europe and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva. He was an outstanding halachic authority who authored many responsa and was one of the foremost Lithuanian rabbis of his time....

 and Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim

Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim

Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim was Chief Rabbi of Kelm, Lithuania, and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva.Rabbi Oppenheim was born in 1854 in the small village of Yakubowe . He showed extraordinary talents from his earliest youth and at age nine could already study a page of Talmud with commentaries on...

 he assisted in establishing the Telz Yeshiva and subsequently taught there. He was the brother-in-law of Shimon Shkop

Shimon Shkop

Shimon Yehuda Hakohen Shkop was a rosh yeshiva in the Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah and in the Telshe yeshiva and a renowned Talmudic scholar. He was born in Torez in 1860. At the age of twelve he went to study in the Mir yeshiva, and at fifteen he went to Volozhin yeshiva where he studied six years...

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Abel died on Tuesday October 12, (13th Tishrei

Tishrei

Tishrei or Tishri , Tiberian: ; from Akkadian "Beginning", from "To begin") is the first month of the civil year and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Hebrew calendar. The name of the month is Babylonian. It is an autumn month of 30 days...

) 1886.

Works

• Beis Shlomo, published posthumously in Vilna in 1893, deals primarily with aspects of Halacha pertaining to financial matters.