Ḥayyim Asahel
Personal life
Died	before 1746 Smyrna,Asia Minor,Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Ottoman Empire
Religious life
Religion	Judaism
Residence	Salonica,Macedonia, Ottoman Empire

Ḥayyim Asahel (Hebrew:חיים עשאל;d. before 1746) was arabbi and author who lived inSalonica during the first half of the eighteenth century.

He was the son of Benjamin Asahel, thechief rabbi of that city. Ḥayyim Asahel was the author of a Hebrew work entitledSam ḥayyai (Hebrew:סם חיי) ('Spice of My Life'), a collection of addresses andresponsa, which was published after his death by his son Benjamin (Salonica, 1746).^[1] He lived for some years atJerusalem, and was commissioned to collect subscriptions throughoutAsia Minor for the poor ofPalestine. He died atSmyrna while on this mission.^[2]

• Asahel, Ḥayyim (1746).Sam ḥayyai [Spice of My Life]. Salonica: Defus Betzalel ha-Levi Ashkenazi.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Gottheil, Richard; Franco, M. (1902)."Asahel, Ḥayyim". InSinger, Isidore; et al. (eds.).The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 161.

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