NAVON, BENJAMIN MORDECAI BEN EPHRAIM
- NAVON, BENJAMIN MORDECAI BEN EPHRAIM
- NAVON, BENJAMIN MORDECAI BEN EPHRAIM (1788–1851), kabbalist
and halakhist, one of the outstanding Jerusalem sages of his time, son
of Ephraim b. Jonah Navon. Navon was called Jilibin (Çelebi, a Turkish
title of honor). He was head of the kabbalists of the "Midrash Ḥasidim
Kehillah Kedoshah Bet El" and head of a bet din. He devoted
himself to a great extent to communal affairs, and assisted Israel Bak
in establishing his pioneer printing press in Jerusalem in 1841. Navon
wrote many responsa, some of which were published under the title
Benei Binyamin (1876) by jacob saul elyashar , his
stepson and disciple, who also included many of his sermons in his
Ish Emunim (1885).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 292f.; M.D. Gaon, Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ
be-Ereẓ Yisrael, 2 (1937), 450f.; Benayahu, in: Sinai,
24 (1948/49), 205–14; idem, Rabbi Ḥayyim Joseph David Azulai
(1959), 275.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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