ASHKENAZI, MORDECAI BEN ISAAC KOHEN
- ASHKENAZI, MORDECAI BEN ISAAC KOHEN
- ASHKENAZI, MORDECAI BEN ISAAC KOHEN (late
16th–early 17th century), rabbi and preacher in
Syria. His major work Rosh Mor Deror (Venice, 1615), written
in 1613, was influenced by his teacher and father-in-law, R. Samuel
Laniado\>\> . A collection of homilies on the Torah readings, written in
the classical tradition of Jewish preaching, it treats the redemption,
God's revenge on the Gentiles, and Israel's blessed condition after the
coming of the Messiah. While Ashkenazi sometimes employed kabbalistic
terms in his preaching, they are generally based directly on the
Midrash.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
D.Z. Laniado, Li-Kedoshim asher ba-Areẓ (1952), 46 ff.
(second pagination).
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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