Английская Википедия:Israel Ze'evi

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Title page of Orim Gedolim, 1758

Abraham Israel Ze'evi (Шаблон:Lang-he; 1650–1731) was an rabbi and Talmudist of Hebron.

Life

Israel Ze'evi was born in Hebron in 1651.Шаблон:R He was a great-grandson of the Jerusalemite rabbi Israel ben Azariah Ze'evi,[1] and grandson of the Moroccan kabbalist Abraham Azulai.Шаблон:RШаблон:R His father died when he was but four years old, and he was educated by his motherШаблон:R and uncle, Isaac Azulai.Шаблон:R At the age of eighteen he married a daughter of Abraham Cuenqui.[2] His cousin, Abraham ben David Yitzhaki, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, would later marry his daughter.[3]

From 1701 to 1731, Ze'evi was chief rabbi of Hebron[4] where he headed the "Emeth le-Ya'akov" yeshivah which had been founded by Abraham Pereira of Amsterdam.[1] It was the oldest such college still functioning in Hebron at the turn of the 20th century.[4] He also acted as an emissary of Hebron, visiting Constantinople in 1685,[1] where he met Tzvi Ashkenazi.[5]

Works

  • Orim Gedolim ('The Great Lights'; Smyrna, 1758), a treatise on rabbinical law which included Talmudic novellae, sermons and responsa.[2]
  • Or li-Yesharim, a collection of homilies.

References

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