LEVI (Bet ha-Levi), ISAAC (II) BEN SOLOMON
- LEVI (Bet ha-Levi), ISAAC (II) BEN SOLOMON
- LEVI (Bet ha-Levi), ISAAC (II) BEN
SOLOMON (II; d. c. 1621/31), halakhist, preacher,
kabbalist, and leader of the Jewish community in Salonika from 1610 to
1620. From 1573 to 1600 he studied in the yeshivah of the Évora
congregation of Salonika. When his father died he was forced out of the
yeshivah, and he was even denied access to his father's works. He moved
to the Provencal congregation of
the city in 1601, where he established a yeshivah which he headed.
Greatly influenced by his father, he was profoundly affected by his
death as well as those of other members of his family (1600–05).
According to David Conforte (Kore, 44a), Isaac was head of the yeshivah
Eẓ Ḥayyim. In 1620–21 his family home was burned and many of his books
and manuscripts were destroyed (though some have been preserved).
Nothing is known of him afterward. His signature appears on the
haskamot ("resolutions") of the rabbis and leaders of
Salonika from 1614–18. His responsa, which contain some novellae, are
preserved in manuscript form. Some were published in the works of his
contemporaries and relatives (R. Ḥayyim Shabbetai; jacob ,
abraham , and solomon bet ha-levi ). All of them praise his
extensive knowledge. From his responsa it is evident that he studied
Kabbalah and his contemporaries attest his piety and emphasize his
talents as a preacher. He wrote introductions, provided indices, and
added poems to the Ḥeshek Shelomo, his father's commentary to
the Book of Isaiah.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Solomon le-Bet ha-Levi, Ḥeshek Shelomo (Salonika, 1600); Ch.
Hirschensohn, in: Hamisderonah, 2 (1888), 219–23, 340–3; A.
Danon, in: Yerushalayim, ed. by A.M. Luncz, 7 (1906–07),
351–4; A.Z. Schwarz, Die hebraeischen Handschriften in
Oesterreich (1931), 71–74, no. 96; I.R. Molho and A. Amarijlio,
in: Sefunot, 2 (1958), 45–51; I.S. Emmanuel, Maẓẓevot
Saloniki, 1 (1963), 232–3, no. 527.
(Joseph Hacker)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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