RAPPAPORT, ISAAC BEN JUDAH HA-KOHEN
- RAPPAPORT, ISAAC BEN JUDAH HA-KOHEN
- RAPPAPORT, ISAAC BEN JUDAH HA-KOHEN (d. 1755), rabbi in
jerusalem and Smyrna, and rabbinic emissary of Safed. His father
emigrated from Lublin to Jerusalem, where Isaac studied at the yeshivah
Beit Ya'akov Pereira, headed by hezekiah da silva . Because of the
difficult circumstances then prevailing in Jerusalem, Isaac accepted the
assignment of rabbinic emissary of Safed to Turkey and the Balkans
(1702–12). Arriving in Constantinople in 1709, he joined Abraham
Yiẓḥaki , who was there as the emissary of Jerusalem, in issuing a
proclamation against the Shabbatean, Nehemiah Ḥiyya Ḥayon , and
engaged there in halakhic discussions with aaron alfandari . He
arrived in Salonika in 1712. At the conclusion of his mission, because
of the straitened circumstances in Jerusalem, he accepted the position
of rabbi at Smyrna, a position he held for 36 years, though he
originally intended to stay only a short time. In this capacity, he
greatly assisted Ereẓ Israel emissaries who visited Smyrna, and in
1732–33 saw through the press in Constantinople and Smyrna Zera
Abraham, responsa by Abraham Yiẓḥaki, then the chief rabbi in
Jerusalem. In 1749 he returned to Jerusalem, where he became the chief
rabbi. Unable to trace the old record book of the local
takkanot, he published many of them from memory, but was
unwilling to issue new ones of his own accord. A collection of his
responsa, novellae, and homilies, entitled Battei Kehunnah,
was published in two volumes, the first in Constantinople, 1736, and the
second at Salonika, 1754.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Rivkind, in: Reshummot, 4 (1925), 341–2; Frumkin-Rivlin, 3
(1929), 61–4; Yaari, Sheluḥei, 423–5.
(Avraham Yaari)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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