MORDECAI BEN JUDAH HA-LEVI
- MORDECAI BEN JUDAH HA-LEVI
- MORDECAI BEN JUDAH HA-LEVI (d. 1684), posek and
rabbinical authority in egypt . Mordecai was the son-in-law of R.
Abraham Tarikah. He served for over 40 years as rabbi, all or part of
the time as dayyan of cairo and of rosetta , and
moved to jerusalem in 1684, dying there in the same year. In 1678
a sharp dispute broke out between R. Gabriel Esperanza, one of the
leading scholars of safed , and Mordecai ha-Levi over a
halakhic ruling. The dispute was brought before R.
moses galante , the leading rabbi of Jerusalem, but he refused to
become involved. His only published work was a collection of responsa,
Darkhei No'am (Venice, 1697). It is a storehouse of
information on the history of 17th-century Egyptian Jewry,
which contains the responsa of many scholars of Mordecai's generation.
The historian R. david conforte was among his friends. Other works
written by him which were never published include: Avodat
ha-Kodesh, a commentary on the Torah; Mikra'ei Kodesh,
hermeneutics; Toledot Adam, concerning the education of
children; and Sof
Adam, collected eulogies. His son R.
abraham b. mordecai ha-levi was the author of Ginnat
Veradim.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
R.A. Ben-Simeon, Tuv Miẓrayim (1908), 24; Frumkin-Rivlin, 2
(1928), 96–98; M. Benayahu, in: Sinai, 43 (1958), 105–8.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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