The Alshich was born in 1508 in the Ottoman Empire, and was the son of Hayyim Alshich.
10 Facts About Moshe Alshich
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Moshe Alshich later moved to Safed where he became a student of Rabbi Joseph Caro.
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Moshe Alshich's students included Rabbi Hayim Vital and Rabbi Yom Tov Tzahalon.
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Alongside the Moshe Alshich were the Shelah HaKadosh, the Ari HaKadosh and the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh, all of them distinctive personalities in their times.
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Various reasons have been suggested as to why the Moshe Alshich received the "HaKadosh" title.
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Moshe Alshich was a disciple of R Joseph Caro, author of the "Shulchan Aruch"; and his own disciples included the Kabbalist R Hayim Vital.
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Moshe Alshich is celebrated as a teacher, preacher, and casuist.
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Moshe Alshich's explanations are all of a homiletical character; his sole object being to find in each sentence or in each word of the Scriptures a moral lesson, a support for trust in God, encouragement to patient endurance, and a proof of the vanity of all earthly goods as compared with the everlasting bliss to be acquired in the future life.
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Moshe Alshich possessed an easy and fluent style; his expositions are mostly of an allegorical character, but very rarely approach mysticism.
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Moshe Alshich wrote the following commentaries, most of which have appeared in several editions:.