NAHUM, ELIEZER BEN JACOB

NAHUM, ELIEZER BEN JACOB
NAHUM, ELIEZER BEN JACOB (c. 1653–c. 1746), rabbi in turkey and Ereẓ Israel. He served as rabbi in Adrianople, where his pupils included Solomon Shalem, later rabbi of the Sephardi community in amsterdam . He later settled in Jerusalem and was elected rishon le-Zion (chief rabbi), a position he held for ten years. Among his colleagues in the bet din were Meyuḥas b. Samuel, isaac azulai (father of Ḥ.J.D. Azulai), and judah diwan . He wrote a number of works, including a commentary on the mishnaic orders Kodashim and Tohorot, entitled Ḥazon Naḥum (Constantinople, 1705). The commentary on the order Zera'im is still in manuscript form. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frumkin-Rivlin, 2 (1928), 161–3. (Samuel Abba Horodezky)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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