PERAḤYAH, AARON BEN ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM HA-KOHEN
- PERAḤYAH, AARON BEN ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM HA-KOHEN
- PERAḤYAH, AARON BEN ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM HA-KOHEN (1627?–1697),
rabbi and halakhic authority of salonika . Peraḥyah was born in
Salonika and studied there under Asher b. Ardut ha-Kohen, Ḥasdai
ha-Kohen Peraḥyah , and Ḥayyim Shabbetai . In 1689 he
succeeded Elijah covo as chief rabbi of Salonika. He was regarded
as an important posek among Salonika rabbis.
His works are: Paraḥ Matteh Aharon (2 parts, Amsterdam,
1703), responsa which reflect the contemporary condition of Turkish
Jewry in general and of Salonikan Jewry in particular; Pirḥei
Kehunnah (ibid., 1709), novellae to the tractates Bava Kamma,
Bava Meẓia, Ketubbot, Gittin, Avodah Zarah, and
Kiddushin; Bigdei Kehunnah (Saloniki, 1753),
eulogies and homilies; and Zikhron Devarim (ibid.,
1758), source references for the Arba'ah Turim of
jacob b. asher . In his Paraḥ Matteh Aharon he mentions
another work, on alfasi , of which nothing is known.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Michael, Or, 136–7; M. Molho, Essai d'une Monographie sur la
Famille Perahia à Thessaloniki (1938), 33–44; I.S. Emmanuel,
Maẓẓevot Saloniki, 2 (1968), 491–4.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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