KAHANA, JEHIEL ẒEVI BEN JOSEPH MORDECAI
- KAHANA, JEHIEL ẒEVI BEN JOSEPH MORDECAI
- KAHANA, JEHIEL ẒEVI BEN JOSEPH MORDECAI (first half of
19th century), member of a family of Hungarian rabbis. He was
a grandson of Judah b. Joseph ha-Kohen, who was a brother of
aryeh leib b. joseph ha-kohen heller , author of the Keẓot
ha-Ḥoshen. Kahana served as dayyan in Sziget, and all
three of his sons were well-known dayyanim in Hungary. The
first, ḤAYYIM ARYEH (d. 1917), served as
dayyan of Máramarossziget (Sighet). He was the author of
Divrei Ge'onim (1870), containing 113 principles and themes
in civil law. The work is in alphabetical order, collected from various
responsa and books. In his introduction the author stresses that it was
not his purpose "to give practical rulings of the law… and I only intend
to stimulate these scholarly teachers who know the law thoroughly." The
second son, JOSEPH MORDECAI (d. 1896), served as
dayyan of Teczo, Hungary, and was the author of Divrei
Ẓaddikim (2 parts, 1874–76), an alphabetical work on the reasons
for the precepts and customs. In his introduction he stresses that the
purpose of the work was to show "that Jewish customs are binding as
law." The disregard of a good custom is tantamount to disregarding the
commands of the Lord and His Torah. The third son, JACOB
GEDALIAH, was the author of Rimzei Torah ve-Alfa Beta
(1876), a commentary on Genesis, also giving the reasons for different
customs in alphabetical order.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
P.Z. Schwartz, Shem ha-Gedolim me-Ereẓ Hagar, 1 (1913), 35a
no. 45, 42b 99/2, 3 (1915), 12b no. 9, 13a no. 23, 35a no. 8; N.
Ben-Menahem, in: Sinai, 17 (1945), 340–3; 25 (1949), 207f.;
J.J. Greenwald (Grunwald), Maẓẓevet Kodesh (1952), 21, 43,
48.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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