Physical Description:

[3] 68 ff., folio, 371:228 mm., light age and damp staining, wide margins. A good copy not bound.

Detailed Description:   

R. David b. Hayyim ha-Kohen of Corfu (d. 1530), rabbi and halakhic authority, known sometimes as Ma-Ha-RDa-Kh (Morenu HaRav David ha-Kohen). R. David was born on the island of Corfu. He studied under R. Judah Minz in Padua and was much influenced by the Ashkenazi method of study. He served in the rabbinate in communities in Greece (including Corfu and Patras), and was in halakhic correspondence with distinguished contemporaries, among them: R. Elijah Mizrahi, R. Moses Alashkar, R. Jacob ibn Habib, and R. Joseph Taitazak. Among his disciples were his son-in-law, R. David Vital, and R. Samuel Kalai. He spent the last year of his life in Adrianople, where he died. Most of his works were destroyed in a conflagration there. A few responsa were rescued and published in Constantinople in 1537 by his son, R. Hayyim; they show him to be an outstanding halakhist, with a definite tendency toward stringency. In his vehement dispute from 1520 to 1525 with R. Benjamin Ze'ev of Arta with regard to permission given to an agunah to remarry, he took an extreme stand in opposition to the lenient attitude adopted by other rabbis (see Res. Benjamin Ze'ev (Venice, 1539), nos. 1–17, 239, 246–9). He also declared that those Marranos who could have fled from their persecutors and did not do so were to be regarded as apostates.

Hebrew Description:

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