CHAJES, ISAAC BEN ABRAHAM
- CHAJES, ISAAC BEN ABRAHAM
- CHAJES, ISAAC BEN ABRAHAM (1538–c. 1615), rabbi of Prague.
Chajes was appointed to this position in 1584 after having been rabbi of
Prossnitz, but he was not, as his grandson Jehiel Hillel Altschuler,
author of Meẓudat David, and some of his other grandsons
maintained, also rabbi at Lemberg and Cracow. He may have received calls
to these positions but declined them. The historian david gans ,
his contemporary, referred to him as "the great rabbi, renowned
throughout the Diaspora, who has raised many pupils and has spread a
knowledge of the Torah among Jews." He followed the pilpulistic method
of jacob pollak and was severely criticized by Jair Ḥayyim
Bacharach , who in his Ḥavvat Ya'ir wrote of Chajes that
"anyone who reads what this person has written in the introduction to
his works will testify and see how he has blundered, may the Lord save
us." The precise date of his death is unknown; the exact date given by
some, 18 Elul 1613, cannot be substantiated. All that is known is that
in 1615 he was no longer alive. His sons were MONISH,
av bet din of Vilna, ABRAHAM, author of
Holekh Tammim (Cracow, 1634), and ELIEZER of
Prague.
Isaac Chajes was the author of Paḥad Yiẓḥak on the
aggadot in tractate Gittin (Lublin, 1573);
Si'aḥ Yiẓḥak, laws for Passover night in rhyme, with
commentary (Prague, 1587; 1905); Penei Yiẓḥak (Cracow, 1591),
the laws of Yoreh De'ah in rhyme with a commentary. This work
is quoted by all commentators on the Shulḥan Arukh. Chajes also mentions
in his writings other unpublished works: Kiryat Arba and
Matammei Yiẓḥak.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
C.J.K. Kraushaar, Be'er Ya'akov, 2 (1930), postscript by H.I.
Gross; I. Brickenstein (ed.), Psalms with commentary by Isaac
Chajes (1950), introd.; Klemperer, in: HJ, 12 (1950),
365, 42; S.J. Fuenn, Kiryah Ne'emanah (19152),
67–70 (on Monish Chajes).
(Yitzchak Arad)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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