ABULAFIA, ISAAC BEN MOSES
- ABULAFIA, ISAAC BEN MOSES
- ABULAFIA, ISAAC BEN MOSES (1824–1910), rabbi and halakhist.
Abulafia, who was born in Tiberias, was rabbi of Damascus from c. 1877.
His authoritarian attitude and his habit of making independent halakhic
decisions roused the opposition of the other rabbis and of the communal
leaders of Damascus, who united in an attempt to remove him from his
position. In 1896 they turned to Moses ha-Levi, the ḥakham
bashi, in Constantinople, who acceded to their request by
appointing Solomon Eliezer Alfandari rabbi of Damascus. The two rabbis
did not at first cooperate with each other. Later, however, Alfandari
brought Abulafia into the sphere of his activities. Toward the end of
his life Abulafia acted as rabbi in Tyre. From there he moved to
Jerusalem, and finally to Tiberias, where he died. An outstanding
halakhic scholar, his responsa Penei Yiẓḥak were published in
six volumes (1871–1906). Some scholars, especially Shalom Ḥai Gagin of
Jerusalem, were critical of the first volume, and Abulafia wrote
Lev Nishbar (1878) in reply to his critics.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ben-Zvi, in: Oẓar Yehudei Sefarad, 6 (1963), 7–16.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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