Rabbi Pinchas Halevi Benveniste

About HaLevi, Pinchas (other dates: 1235-1260)

Berdichevsky-Sokolka Families

A contemporary of Nachmanides 1194-1270 (Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman). Sefer HaChinuch (is ascribed to either R. Aahron Ha-Levi or R. Pinchas Ha-Levi of Barcelona. His predecessor were the Gerondis who were ?....of the descendants of the Exile from Jerusalem, who lived in Spain? and who claimed descent form the Levite Biblical Prophet Samuel.

He is the ancestor of the Horowitz family, named after the village of Horovice in Bohemia (Czech Republic) where his grandson Joseph descendant settled. Sefer HaChinuch (Book of Education) - one of the basic early works on Jewish thought that records all the 613 commandments of the Torah and offers reasons for their issuance. The book was simply intended to impart to Jewish youth a knowledge of the Law, and to present in simple form the principles of Judaism to the unlearned layman