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Lot #    11863
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 12:34:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Zera Avraham - Responsa
Title (Hebrew)    זרע אברהם
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Abraham Yizhaki
City    Constantinople
Publisher    Jona b. Jacob Ashkenazi
Publication Date    1732
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Description
   Only edition, volume 2. [2], 167 ff., 308:198 mm., old hand on title, wide margins, dampstained, light browning, scattered worming affecting letters, initial and final two ff. with paper repairs. A good copy bound in modern leather boards, tooled in blind, spine letters in gilt.
          
Detailed
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   Responsa on Even Ha'Ezer and Chosen Mishpat. Volume 1 was printed in Izmir two years later.

R. Abraham b. David Yizhaki (1661–1729), rabbi, halakhic authority, and kabbalist. Born in Jerusalem, he was the grandson of the kabbalist, R. Abraham b. Mordecai Azulai, and son-in-law of R. Abraham Israel Zeevi, a scholar of Hebron. He studied Talmud under R. Moses b. Jonathan Galante, and Kabbalah together with R. Joseph Bialer, grandfather of R. H. J. D. Azulai. He was chief rabbi of Jerusalem, Rishon le-Zion, by 1708, and held the position until his death. He also headed a yeshivah. Among his disciples were R. Moses Hagiz, R. Isaac ha-Kohen Rapoport, and R. Isaac Zerahiah Azulai.

At the beginning of his rabbinate, the inhabitants of Jerusalem suffered from the heavy burden of taxation placed upon them by the government. To ameliorate the situation, R. Yizhaki went to various European countries and to Turkey as an emissary of the community (1709–16). In 1708, as head of the Jerusalem rabbis, he signed a declaration against the Shabbatean Nehemiah Hayon, and during his journey he vigorously opposed the propaganda conducted by Hayon and Miguel Abraham Cardozo. On reaching Amsterdam in 1712 he encouraged R. Moses Hagiz and R. Zevi Ashkenazi (Hakham Zevi) to oppose Hayon, who came to Amsterdam in 1713. On returning to Jerusalem, Yizhaki devoted himself to teaching and writing. Some time later, when the situation of Jerusalem deteriorated and his safety was endangered, he was compelled to flee to Hebron, but later returned to Jerusalem, where he passed on.

          
Paragraph 2    [חלק א]: תשו' דשייכי לא"ה וח"מ [לאבן העזר וחושן משפט]. הובאו לבית הדפוס ע"י תלמידו וחתנו ... ר' ידידיה הכהן נר"ו בן ... ר' אריהודה ליב הכהן זלה"ה נכד להרב [אפרים ב"ר יעקב הכהן] ... בעל שער אפרים.
          
Reference
Description
   Vinograd, Constantinople 443; CD-EPI 0136896; EJ; JE; Yaari, Sheluhei, 353-8; Benayahu, in: KS, 28 (1952/53), 33; Toledano, in: Yerushalayim, 4 (1953), 215–6; Scholem, Shabbetai Zevi, 1 (1957), 199–200.
        
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Responsa:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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