GAGIN, ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM BEN MOSES
- GAGIN, ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM BEN MOSES
- GAGIN, ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM BEN MOSES (1787–1848), chief rabbi of
Jerusalem. Gagin was born in Constantinople. He became rishon
le-Zion (Sephardi chief rabbi) in 1842 and was the first to bear
the official title of ḥakham bashi. Gagin was responsible for
the taxes of the Jews to the government, and was granted authority to
impose taxation within the community on meat ('gabela'),
maẓẓot, wine, etc. He lived in the Old City of Jerusalem
in the courtyard of his grandfather, shalom sharabi , the
kabbalist, and the government placed a guard of ten soldiers near his
dwelling to protect the Jewish quarter. In his time a violent dispute
broke out among the rabbis of Jerusalem with reference to the
kolelim and the distribution of the funds for them which arrived
from abroad. The following of his works were published: Minḥah
Tehorah (Salonika, n. d. c. 1825–36), Ḥukkei Ḥayyim
(1843); Ḥayyim mi-Yrushalayim (1882); and Yeri'ot
ha-Ohel (2 pts., 1886–1904).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 276–8; M.D. Gaon, Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ
be-Ereẓ Yisrael, 2 (1938), 179–82.
(Abraham Ben-Yaacob)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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