ZE'EVI, ISRAEL BEN AZARIAH
- ZE'EVI, ISRAEL BEN AZARIAH
- ZE'EVI, ISRAEL BEN AZARIAH (17th century), rabbi
and emissary. Born in Salonika, Ze'evi settled in jerusalem ,
where he suffered under the harsh regime of the Turkish governor Ibn
Faruk. In a halakhic correspondence with Joseph b. Moses trani
(later of safed and then Constantinople), he described the
sufferings of the Jerusalem community, in particular their financial
plight (Responsa Maharit 2, Ḥoshen Mishpat, no.
60). Ze'evi was one of the signatories of a 1646 takkanah
(regulation) exempting scholars from taxes. He also wrote a number of
approbations ( haskamot ) and twice undertook missions on behalf
of the Jerusalem community, visiting turkey and the Balkan
countries. His great-grandson, ISRAEL B. BENJAMIN ZE'EVI
(d. 1731), was rabbi of hebron for about 30 years and head of a
yeshivah founded by the wealthy Abraham Pereira of Amsterdam, and
visited Constantinople in 1685 as an emissary of hebron . He was
the author of Orim Gedolim (Smyrna, 1758), consisting of
talmudic novellae, sermons, and responsa.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 2 (1928), 14f.; E. Rivlin (ed.), Ḥorvot
Yerushalayim (1928), 41, 45f.; Yaari, Sheluḥei, 266–7.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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