ELIJAH BEN SOLOMON HA-KOHEN
- ELIJAH BEN SOLOMON HA-KOHEN
- ELIJAH BEN SOLOMON HA-KOHEN, Palestinian gaon from
1062 to 1083. His father Solomon was gaon from about 1020 to
1025 and was succeeded by solomon b. judah , who held that office
until 1051. Elijah and his elder brother Joseph, who were very young
when their father died, occupied important positions during Solomon b.
Judah's incumbency, Elijah being the "shelishi" ("third") and
his brother the av bet din . According to the prevailing custom
Joseph should have been appointed as gaon, and Elijah as
av bet din after the death of Solomon b. Judah, but they were
forcibly prevented by daniel b. azariah who belonged to the family
of the Babylonian geonim. Daniel assumed the gaonate, holding
the office from 1051 to 1062, and the two brothers were obliged to
accept his authority. Only after the death of Daniel was Elijah
appointed gaon. After the conquest of Jerusalem by the
Seljuks in 1071, Elijah moved to Tyre together with his yeshivah. About
two years before his death he designated his son abiathar to
succeed him after his death, and his second son, Solomon, as av bet
din. A few of his responsa have survived, in which he and Abiathar
reply to questions from meshullam b. Moses of Mainz.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
S. Schechter, Saadyana (1903), 80–104; Bornstein, in:
Sefer ha-Yovel… N. Sokolow (1904), 125ff.; Marmorstein, in:
REJ, 73 (1921), 84ff.; Mann, Egypt, 2 (1922), index;
Mann, Texts, 2 (1935), index; Dinur, Golah, 1, pt. 4 (19622),
index; Scheiber, in: Tarbiz, 32 (1962/63), 273–6.
(Simha Assaf)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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