ASAEL, ḤAYYIM BEN BENJAMIN
- ASAEL, ḤAYYIM BEN BENJAMIN
- ASAEL, ḤAYYIM BEN BENJAMIN (1650–c. 1707), rabbi in Salonika
and later an emissary from Jerusalem. Ḥayyim taught at the yeshivah of
Solomon amarillo , the foremost house of study in Salonika, and
also served as preacher to the Ashkenazi congregation in the city. After
his father's death, in 1690, he moved to Jerusalem, where he remained
for some years teaching at the yeshivah of "Pereyra" until his
appointment as emissary to Turkey in 1704. He died in Smyrna. Ḥayyim
wrote the Sam Ḥayyei, incorporating responsa given during the
course of his travels and sermons. This work was published by his son,
Benjamin Asael (Salonika, 1746). His responsa are also quoted elsewhere.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 2 (1928), 164; Rosarnes, Togarmah, 4 (1935), 347; Yaari,
Sheluḥei, 115, 352–3, 486, 888.
(Simon Marcus)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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