ABULAFIA, JACOB BEN SOLOMON
- ABULAFIA, JACOB BEN SOLOMON
- ABULAFIA, JACOB BEN SOLOMON (1550?–1622?), Damascus rabbi.
Abulafia, the grandson of jacob b. moses berab , studied under
solomon absaban and under Moses Besodo – apparently in Damascus –
together with Yom Tov Ẓahalon . There is evidence that he may
have been friendly with isaac luria . It is known that he was in
Safed in 1589. In 1593 he was serving as rabbi of the Spanish
congregation in Damascus. About 1599 he received ordination
(semikhah) – together with seven other great scholars of
Safed – from Jacob (II) berab ; Abulafia was
definitely in Safed in the summer of 1599. He
again visited there in the summer of 1609,
returning to Damascus that same year. He ordained his closest pupil
josiah pinto about 1617, apparently in Safed. His relationship
with Ḥayyim Vital was extremely strained. Abulafia had no faith
in Vital's visions, and mocked his approach to Kabbalah. The tension
between them reached its peak in 1609. Abulafia was primarily a
halakhist, but he also wrote expository homilies on the Pentateuch. Some
of his responsa and novellae on the Pentateuch appear in the works of
his contemporaries. Ḥ.Y.D. azulai saw a large manuscript volume of
his responsa.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Azulai, 1 (1852), 85, no. 202; Judah Aryeh di Modena, Ari
Nohem, ed. by N.S. Leibovitz (1929), 80; Ḥ. Vital, Sefer
ha-Ḥezyonot, ed. by A.Z. Aescoly (1954), 24 ff., 91–129; M.
Benayahu, in: Sefer Yovel … Y. Baer (1960), 253, 257, 260–1,
266–7.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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