EZEKIEL BEN REUBEN MANASSEH
- EZEKIEL BEN REUBEN MANASSEH
- EZEKIEL BEN REUBEN MANASSEH (d. 1851), Baghdad philanthropist
who distributed large amounts of money for charitable purposes in Iraq
and Ereẓ Israel. In 1840 Ezekiel established the Baghdad rabbinical
academy, named Bet Zilkha and also Midrash Abi Manshi after its
benefactor. The yeshivah was first headed by R. abdallah somekh
and provided the students with all their needs. Ezekiel also built in
Baghdad the "new synagogue" in 1847, the "small synagogue" in 1849, and
Kneset Yeḥezkel in Safed, which was named after him (it now bears the
name of R. moses alshekh ). He also donated half of the
construction costs of the Bet Ya'akov synagogue, better known as Hurbat
R. Yehudah he-Hasid, in the Old City of Jerusalem. After his death, his
sons Manasseh and Sason continued his philanthropic work.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Ben-Jacob, Toledot ha-Rav Abdallah Somekh (1949), 15–20;
idem, Yehudei Bavel (1965), 175–7.
(Abraham Ben-Yaacob)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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