ATTAR, JUDAH BEN JACOB (IBN)
- ATTAR, JUDAH BEN JACOB (IBN)
- ATTAR, JUDAH BEN JACOB (IBN) (known as "Rabbi al-Kabbir" (the
great teacher); 1655–1733), talmudic scholar in Morocco. Attar was born
in Fez and at a young age he was appointed head of the Moroccan
dayyanim, after refusing to accept any remuneration for this
function. He earned his living in trade and devoted his life to the
well-being of his coreligionists. In collaboration with his disciple,
Jacob Abensur, he published the takkanot of the first Spanish
exiles in Fez and drew up new regulations which continued to serve as
the basis of Judeo-Moroccan jurisprudence. His published works include
Minḥat Yehudah on the Pentateuch (1940); customs and
practices of Fez regarding terefot published in Mekor
Ḥayyim (1897). Many responsa were published in Mishpat
u-Ẓedakah le-Ya'akov (pt. 1–1894, pt. 2–1903) and others appear
in works of various Moroccan rabbis. Many of Attar's writings still
exist in manuscript including a commentary on Midrash Rabbah.
Attar's grandson, JUDAH B. OBED (1725–1812), was a
dayyan in Fez and among other works wrote Zikkaron
li-Venei Yisrael, on the persecution of the Jews in Morocco during
1790–1792. Several excerpts from this work have been published.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Azulai, 1 (1852), 67, no. 55, S.V. Yehudah
Attar; J.M. Toledano, Ner ha-Ma'arav (1911), passim; J.
Ben-Naim, Malkhei Rabbanan (1931), 46–50; Judah Attar,
Minḥat Yehudah (1940), preface; G. Vajda, Recueil de
textes historiques judéo-marocains (1951), 79–96.
(David Obadia)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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