MEYUḤAS, MOSES JOSEPH MORDECAI BEN RAPHAEL MEYUḤAS
- MEYUḤAS, MOSES JOSEPH MORDECAI BEN RAPHAEL MEYUḤAS
- MEYUḤAS, MOSES JOSEPH MORDECAI BEN RAPHAEL MEYUḤAS
(1738–1805), chief rabbi of jerusalem . Moses studied in the
bet midrash Bet Ya'akov. When only 15 years of age he
answered questions on halakhah. After 1778 he was one of the
members of the bet midrash Keneset Israel founded by
Ḥayyim ibn Attar . After the death of his father-in-law
yom tov algazi , Moses succeeded him as Sephardi chief rabbi
(rishon le-Zion) in
1802. He was on friendly terms with Ḥ.J.D. Azulai . The titles
of all his works include the word mayim from the
initials of his name (he even signed his responsa "Mayim
Meyuḥas"). They are Sha'ar ha-Mayim (Salonika, 1768),
novellae on the laws of terefot in Yoreh
De'ah, on tractate Ḥullin and responsa;
Berekhot Mayim (ibid., 1789), novellae to
the Shulḥan Arukh; Mayim Sha'al (ibid.,
1799), responsa, including the work Mayim Rishonim,
novellae written in his youth, to the Mishneh Torah of
maimonides . Many of his novellae and responsa, among them
Penei ha-Mayim and Ein ha-Mayim, remain
unpublished.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 183–6; M.D. Gaon, Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ
be-Ereẓ Yisrael, 2 (1938), 401f.; M. Benayahu, Rabbi Ḥayyim
Yosef David Azulai (Heb., 1959), 350f.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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