ABULAFIA, ḤAYYIM BEN JACOB
- ABULAFIA, ḤAYYIM BEN JACOB
- ABULAFIA, ḤAYYIM BEN JACOB (1580–1668),
Palestinian talmudist, known as the First. After studying in Safed,
Abulafia was ordained by his father in about 1618. In 1628 Abulafia
settled in Jerusalem and later moved to Hebron, where despite his
advanced age he directed the yeshivah. He was one of the leading rabbis
of his era. In 1651–52 Abulafia was a central figure in the controversy
over the election of a new rabbi of the Hebron community and went to
Cairo to enlist the support of the influential Raphael Joseph, head of
Egyptian Jewry, and arrange a compromise. When Nathan of Gaza began his
propaganda in support of Shabbetai Zevi, Abulafia adopted a negative
attitude similar to that of his father toward the visions of Ḥayyim
Vital\>\> . Although he was skeptical, he wished to avoid open conflict,
and did not threaten excommunication as did his father in the case of
the latter. In 1666 he was one of the delegation of four who went to
Gaza on behalf of the Constantinople community to investigate the
authenticity of Nathan's prophecies, and about this time he returned to
live in Jerusalem. His grandson was Ḥayyim ben Jacob Abulafia\>\>
(II), who renewed Jewish settlement in Tiberias in 1740.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Benayahu, Rabbi Ḥayyim Yosef David Azulai (1959), 293–302;
Ben-Zvi, Eretz; Scholem, Shabbetai Ẓevi, 221, 228, 511. ADD.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: M.D. Gaon, Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ be-Ereẓ
Yisrael, 2 (1938), 7.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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