ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI HA-LEVI
- ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI HA-LEVI
- ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI HA-LEVI (late 17th century),
Egyptian rabbi and author. In 1684 Abraham succeeded his father as head
of the Egyptian rabbinate. His son-in-law, the physician Ḥayyim b. Moses
Tawil, published a collection of Abraham's responsa (arranged in the
order of the four Turim) and a treatise on divorce entitled
Ginnat Veradim (Constantinople, 1716–17) and Ya'ir
Netiv (1718), respectively. In Venice, Abraham printed his
father's responsa Darkhei No'am (1697–98), adding to it his
own treatise on circumcision which involved him in a halakhic
controversy with his contemporaries. He annulled the ban on reading
Peri Hadash by hezekiah da silva – imposed by Egyptian
rabbis in the previous generation. A collection of brief decisions and
rules entitled Gan ha-Melekh was printed at the end of
Ginnat Veradim. His remaining works, consisting of Bible
commentaries, sermons, and eulogies, have remained in manuscript.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Michael, Or, no. 177; S.M. Chones, Toledot ha-Posekim (1929),
141; S. Rosanes, Divrei Yemei Yisrael be-Togarmah, 4 (1935),
379–81; Heilperin, in Zion, 1 (1936), 84, n. 2; Sonne,
ibid., 252–5.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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