BEN SIMEON, RAPHAEL AARON
- BEN SIMEON, RAPHAEL AARON
- BEN SIMEON, RAPHAEL AARON (1848–1928), rabbi. Ben Simeon, who
was born in Jerusalem, became chief rabbi of Cairo in 1891. Toward the
end of his life he returned to Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. Ben
Simeon wrote a number of works, mainly dealing with questions of
halakhah and ritual. They include Nehar Miẓrayim
(1908), on the ritual followed by the Jews in Egypt, and Sha'ar
ha-Mifkad (1908–19), on the various rituals observed by the
Jerusalem communities. His collection of responsa, U-mi-ẓur
Devash (1912), includes rulings
by his father David; Tuv-Miẓrayim
(1908) gives genealogies of Egyptian rabbis.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 307–8.
(Eliyahu Ashtor)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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