ASHKENAZI, NAPHTALI BEN JOSEPH
- ASHKENAZI, NAPHTALI BEN JOSEPH
- ASHKENAZI, NAPHTALI BEN JOSEPH (c. 1540–1602), rabbi in
Safed. Ashkenazi studied in the two great yeshivot of the Ashkenazi
community in Safed and was later appointed preacher there. He suffered
great privation as a result of the deterioration in the economic
situation and in 1595 went to Egypt and then Italy. In Mantua he made
the acquaintance of Moses berab . In 1601 he published in Venice
Imrei Shefer, a volume of sermons which shows kabbalistic
influence. Leone modena held Ashkenazi in high esteem and wrote a
poem in praise of his book. In Venice, he was received with great honor
and the rosh yeshivah, Ben Zion Ẓarefati, invited Ashkenazi
to join his staff. During his stay in the city he was the guest of the
wealthy Kalonymus Belgrado, founder of the yeshivah. He discovered the
manuscripts of Solomon b. Abraham Adret's Avodat ha-Kodesh
and Abraham b. David of Posquières' Ba'alei Nefesh and
published them in Venice in 1602. He planned to return to Ereẓ Israel,
but died in Venice. Leon Modena's eulogy of him was published in his
Midbar Yehudah (78 ff.).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ghirondi-Neppi, 273–5; L. Blau (ed.), Leo Modenas Briefe und
Schriftstuecke (1905), 117; S. Bernstein, The Divan of Leo di
Modena (1932), 73.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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