SAADIAH BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI
- SAADIAH BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI
- SAADIAH BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI (16th century),
Yemenite rabbi, poet, and paytan. Saadiah was one of the
leading scholars of his time in Sanʿa (and later in Jiblah). He
composed piyyutim and poems.
Several of his piyyutim, including one on the
Akedah (the binding of Isaac), were published or mentioned by
H. Brody, D. Sassoon, and A.Z. Idelsohn (see bibliography).
zechariah al-dahiri composed a panegyric in his honor, published
in the Sefer ha-Musar, in which he notes that Saadiah lived
in Sanʿa at the time of the persecutions of 1568 and describes the
latter's greatness in Torah. He may possibly be the Saadiah b. Joseph
whose piyyut was published in the aleppo prayer book of
1527.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
H. Brody, in: Kobez al Jad, 6 (1894), 12–14, 27–29; D.
Sassoon, in: KS, 2 (1925/26), 258–64; 3 (1926/27),
168–71; A.Z. Idelsohn and H. Torczyner (eds.), Shirei
Teiman (1930), 256–62; Zechariah al-Ḏāhirī, Sefer
ha-Musar, ed. by Y. Ratzaby (1965), index.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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