GALANTE, JEDIDIAH BEN MOSES
- GALANTE, JEDIDIAH BEN MOSES
- GALANTE, JEDIDIAH BEN MOSES (17th century),
scholar and emissary. From 1607 to 1613 Galante visited the Italian
communities as an emissary of Safed, possibly on behalf of its Italian
community to which his family belonged. During his travels he wrote
several halakhic responsa in reply to problems addressed to him and
relayed the remarkable deeds attributed to isaac luria (the Ari).
In 1608 he published in Venice the responsa of his father,
moses galante . When some Italian Jews, who objected to one of
Jedidiah's rulings on a subject that divided the rabbis of Italy,
accused him of embezzling the donations for Ereẓ Israel, he took
dramatic action. On a Sabbath in Elul 1609, after his sermon to a large
Venetian congregation before which he had been invited to preach, he
took a Scroll of the Law from the Ark and in the presence of the whole
congregation swore to his complete innocence. The incident, which made a
profound impression, was publicized by the lay leaders and rabbis of
Venice in a specially printed notice circulated among the Italian
communities.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Sonne, in: Koveẓ-al-Yad, 5 (1950), 205–12; Yaari, Sheluẓhei,
152, 247, 842–3.
(Avraham Yaari)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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