GABBAI, MOSES BEN SHEM-TOV
- GABBAI, MOSES BEN SHEM-TOV
- GABBAI, MOSES BEN SHEM-TOV (d. c. 1443), scholar of Spain and
North Africa. He lived for a time in Calatayud and then moved to Teruel
where he served as rabbi. He settled in Majorca (before 1387) but during
the riots of 1391 escaped to North Africa and was appointed rabbi of
Honein. Gabbai was closely connected with the royal Spanish court and
King John I of Aragon granted him freedom of passage
between Spain and Majorca to attend to his affairs in Majorca (from a
document dated 1394). His sister was the wife of Simeon b. Ẓemaḥ
Duran ; Gabbai corresponded with the latter and with
isaac b. sheshet perfet , both of whom he greatly respected. The
poet solomon b. meshullam da piera praised him in several of his
poems. The latest mention of his name is in a responsum of Duran
(Tashbeẓ, 2:99) addressed to him at Honein. From its contents
it is clear that it was written in 1443, and not in 1427, as has been
erroneously stated by his biographers. His extant writings are a
supercommentary (written in 1421) on the commentary of Rashi on the
Pentateuch (in manuscript); and a bakkashah (petitional
prayer) which is also in manuscript.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
I. Epstein, The Responsa of Rabbi Simon ben Ẓemaḥ Duran
(1903), index; A. Hershman, Rabbi Isaac bar Sheshet Perfet and His
Times (1943); Baer, Urkunden, 1 (1929), 720f.
(Israel Moses Ta-Shma)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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