FAITUSI, JACOB BEN ABRAHAM
- FAITUSI, JACOB BEN ABRAHAM
- FAITUSI, JACOB BEN ABRAHAM (d. 1812), Jerusalem emissary and
talmudist. Faitusi was born in tunis and immigrated to
jerusalem around 1800. In 1806 he became an emissary of Jerusalem
to tripoli , tunisia , and algeria . He published:
Berit Ya'akov (Leghorn, 1800), including the Shitah
Mekubbezet of bezalel ashkenazi to tractate
Sotah, the Likkutei Ge'onim of various authors on
tractates Nedarim and Nazir, and
Likkutim on tractate Nazir by Abraham ibn Musa, to
which he appended Sha'arei Ẓedek by levi b. gershom on
the 13 hermeneutical principles and an original work on the subject
entitled Yagel Ya'akov; Mizbaḥ Kapparah (ibid.,
1810), containing the Shitah Mekubbeẓet to Menaḥot,
Zevaḥim, and Bekhorot, novellae on Ḥullin
attributed to Naḥmanides and Ronu le-Ya'akov, his own
commentary on tractates Hullin and Temurah.
Appended to the work are homilies in praise of the Land of Israel;
Mareh ha-Ofanim (ibid., 1810) including the
novellae of asher b. jehiel on Sotah and his own
commentary, Yagel Ya'akov, on Pesaḥim, Beẓah, Rosh
Ha-Shanah, Avodah Zarah, and Makkot. Faitusi died in
Algeria, while on a mission there. His son, ḤAYYIM DAVID,
published Jacob's Yerekh Ya'akov (ibid., 1842), homilies on
the Pentateuch and the Five Scrolls, together with Kokhav
mi-Ya'akov, novellae on the Talmud and responsa.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 127–8; Rosanes, Togarmah, 5 (1938), 279;
Yaari, Sheluḥei, 707–8; Hirschberg, Afrikah, 2 (1965), 160, 347 n. 33.
(Simon Marcus)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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