ELIJAH BEN BENJAMIN HA-LEVI
- ELIJAH BEN BENJAMIN HA-LEVI
- ELIJAH BEN BENJAMIN HA-LEVI (d. after 1540), rabbi and
paytan of Constantinople. He belonged to an indigenous
Turkish Jewish family. He studied under moses capsali , to whose
aid he came in his dispute with joseph colon , and afterward under
Elijah Mizraḥi , whom he succeeded as chief rabbi of
Constantinople in 1525. Elijah wrote a book of responsa
called Tanna de-Vei Eliyahu,
comprising 451 responsa (in manuscript), 221 of which were edited by
Benjamin b. Abraham Motal and published by Aaron Galimidi, one
of his descendants, under the title Zekan Aharon
(Constantinople, 1734). Some of his responsa were published in the works
of his contemporaries, in the responsa Oholei Tam (in
Tummat Yesharim) of Tam ibn Yaḥya , and in the
Avkat Rokhel of joseph caro . Benjamin Motal published
Elijah's article "Kol De'i," on the laws of asmakhta ,
in his collection Tummat Yesharim. Elijah edited and
published the Maḥzor Romania, the liturgy in use in Greece
and the neighboring countries, adding to it bakkashot,
teḥinot, and other piyyutim. Benjamin Motal states
that Elijah wrote thousands of poems, and the following books of poetry
are known to be by him: Beit ha-Levi, Tokheḥah Megullah, Shevet
ha-Musar, and Mei Zahav. The book Zekan
Aharon mentions his Livyat Ḥen, which deals with
ethical conduct. It is divided into three parts: Maḥaneh
Leviyyah (of which one chapter was published as no. 148 of
Zekan Aharon), Maḥaneh Yisrael, and Maḥaneh
Shekhinah. He also prepared for publication Jacob b. Asher's
Arba'ah Turim (Constantinople, 1494 or 1504) and Alfasi's
code (Constantinople, 1509).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Motal, in: Elijah b. Binyamin ha-Levi, Zekan Aharon
(Constantinople, 1734), introduction; Zunz, Poesie, 388–90; A. Berliner,
Aus meiner Bibliothek (1898), 3–5; S. Wiener, Kohelet
Moshe, 4 (1902), 441, no. 3665; Rosanes, Togarmah, 1
(19302), 206–9; 2 (19382), 8f.; Davidson, Oẓar, 4
(1933), 363, S.V. Eliyahu ha-Levi;
Gold-schmidt, in: Sefunot, 8 (1964), 205–36.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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