JOSEPH SAMUEL BEN ẒEVI OF CRACOW
- JOSEPH SAMUEL BEN ẒEVI OF CRACOW
- JOSEPH SAMUEL BEN ẒEVI OF CRACOW (d. 1703), rabbi and
talmudist. After having served for 26 years as a member of the Cracow
bet din, he was in 1689 appointed rabbi in Frankfurt. There
he established a yeshivah and headed charitable institutions. In his
approbation (haskamah) to Ḥayyim Krochmal's Mekor
ha-Ḥayyim (1697), he protested against the excessive publication
of rabbinic literature in Germany, accusing the writers of many such
works of "writing books not for the sake of Heaven… but seeking only
their own benefit and advantage." He himself wrote several works on
halakhah and aggadah but refrained from publishing
them. His annotations to the Talmud were published by his son Aryeh Loeb
in the Frankfurt and Amsterdam editions of the Talmud (1714–21), and
appeared afterward in the Vienna and Sulzbach editions. Only one of his
responsa has been published (in Enoch b. Abraham's Ḥinnukh Beit
Yehudah, 137 (Frankfurt, 1710).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Horovitz, Frankfurter Rabbinen, 2 (1883), 56–57; Fuenn,
Keneset, 505; H.N. Dembitzer, Kelilat Yofi, 1 (1888), 72a, n.
8; 2 (1893), 144b–151a; R.N.N. Rabbinovicz, Ma'amar al Hadpasat
ha-Talmud, ed. by Habermann (1952), index.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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