SHEIKH, ABRAHAM BEN SHALOM HA-LEVI AL-
- SHEIKH, ABRAHAM BEN SHALOM HA-LEVI AL-
- SHEIKH, ABRAHAM BEN SHALOM HA-LEVI AL- (c. 1749–1829),
community leader, liturgical innovator. Al-Sheikh was born and lived in
San'a . He was the grandson of the nagid R. Yiḥye
ha-Levi , who headed the Jewish community of San'a after the return
from the Exile of Mawza' , when he founded the Al-Sheikh
synagogue, the first to be built in the new Jewish walled-off
neighborhood (qā' al-yahūd). After the fall of the Iraqi
family, he was appointed by the imam as supervisor of his mint and as
president of the Jews of Yemen. As a wealthy man, he donated much money
to the poor and helped orphans marry, built mikva'ot and a
boys' school for the community from his own funds, and improved his
family synagogue, already known for its beautiful traditions and
valuable collection of books. He instituted a mixed rite of customs and
prayers in the synagogues by introducing several changes and reforms
based on Sephardi prayer books and the opinion of R. Joseph Caro
(shāmī). This provoked the criticism of conservative
(baladī) scholars. Al-Sheikh wrote a work on the
masorah and the musical notes of the Scriptures, Ḥelkat
Meḥokek (in manuscript).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Qoraḥ, Sa'arat Teman (1954), 24–25.
(Yehuda Ratzaby /
Yosef Tobi (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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