ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC HA-KOHEN OF ZAMOŚĆ
- ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC HA-KOHEN OF ZAMOŚĆ
- ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC HA-KOHEN OF ZAMOŚĆ (18th
century), Polish rabbi and author. Abraham served for a short period as
head of the bet din in Tarlow, but, as he was extremely
wealthy, he was able to resign his position and in 1754 returned to
Zamość, his birthplace. There he occupied himself with both religious
and secular studies. He knew German, Polish, and Latin. In 1753 he was a
member of the Zamość delegation to the central committee session of the
councils of the lands , held at Jaroslav. In 1754 he participated
in the conference held at Constantinov where he was a signatory to the
ban passed there on the printers of the Sulzbach Talmud. From this time,
he played an active role in Polish Jewish life and became widely known.
In the emden -eybeschuetz dispute he opposed the official
line of the Council of Four Lands which supported Eybeschuetz and he
defended Jacob Emden (with whom he corresponded in 1759–60). He strove
zealously against any mystical messianic and Shabbatean revival and
signed the 1753/54 letters of protest against the Shabbateans. Beit
Abraham, his book of responsa and talmudic novellae, was printed
in 1753; the book contained also the novellae of his father Isaac b.
Abraham ha-Kohen, as well as his own halakhic novellae, in an appendix
called Minḥah Belulah.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Preface to Beit Abraham (1753); J. Emden, Sefer
ha-Shimmush (1758), 81a; Z. Horowitz, Kitvei ha-Ge'onim
(1928), 138, no. 2; M. Tamari (ed.), Zamość bi-Ge'onah
u-ve-Shivrah (1953), 41, 48–49; Halpern, Pinkas, index.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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