BENVENISTE, JOSEPH BEN MOSES DE SEGOVIA
- BENVENISTE, JOSEPH BEN MOSES DE SEGOVIA
- BENVENISTE, JOSEPH BEN MOSES DE SEGOVIA (second half of the
16th century), rabbi and author. Benveniste spent most of his
life in Safed but died in Brusa, Turkey. His principal teacher was
elisha gallico , but he also studied under isaac luria and
samuel b. isaac de uceda . joseph ganso ,
rabbi of Brusa, was his pupil. He wrote many
works which were lost. Benveniste mentions two of them: Be-Ẓel
ha-Kesef, an ethical work modeled on the Kad ha-Kemaḥ
of Baḥya b. Asher , and Yakhol Yosef (also
erroneously called Yevul Yosef) containing various novellae.
A number of his biblical comments, including interpretations he learned
from isaac luria , are quoted in the Dovev Siftei
Yeshenim (Smyrna, 1671) of his grandson
nissim solomon algazi .
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Scholem, in: Beḥinot, 9 (1956), 82; Tamar, in:
Tarbiz, 27 (1957/58), 105–8; M. Benayahu, Sefer Toledot
ha-Ari (1967), 362–4.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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