ALFANDARI, ḤAYYIM BEN ISAAC RAPHAEL
- ALFANDARI, ḤAYYIM BEN ISAAC RAPHAEL
- ALFANDARI, ḤAYYIM BEN ISAAC RAPHAEL (c. 1660–1733), kabbalist
and rabbi. He lived at Brusa, Turkey, where in 1681 he met (Abraham
Miguel Cardozo
(Cardoso)(retrieve.do?inPS=true&prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=humboldt&tabID=&contentSet=GALE&docId=GALE%7CCX2587503957)
. According to the latter's testimony, Alfandari later came to him in
Constantinople for esoteric study and believed in Cardoso's concept of
the Divinity. For this reason Alfandari quarreled with
samuel primo , the rabbi of the Adrianople community. He was
summoned before the scholars of Constantinople (c. 1683) and warned to
disassociate himself from Cardoso's circle. On this occasion he denied
belonging to Cardoso's circle and accused the latter of belief in the
Trinity. Later Alfandari became an extreme Shabbatean. He signed his
name "Ḥayyim Ẓevi," called himself "Messiah," and gathered a group of
followers in Constantinople. Cardoso accused them of desecrating the
Sabbath and eating forbidden food. In 1696 Alfandari settled in
Jerusalem as head of the community (resh mata). He was active
in public affairs and presided over a yeshivah. At one time he resided
in Egypt, where he studied isaac luria 's writings which were in
the possession of Moses Vital, grandson of Ḥayyim Vital . He
also lived in Safed, where he wrote a booklet called Kedusha de-Vei
Shimshei (printed in J. Kasabi's Rav Yosef). By 1710 he
had returned to Constantinople where, in 1714, he was a signatory to the
excommunication of Nehemiah Ḥayon during the controversy on
Oz le-Elohim (1713). In 1717, however, Alfandari was Ḥayon's
envoy and delivered letters of the scholars of Hebron and Salonika to
the rabbis of Constantinople, and in 1718 he tried to reconcile Ḥayon
with naphtali katz . In 1722 his name appeared first on the list
of the Safed scholars confirming Daniel Kapsuto's credentials as
emissary. He returned to Constantinople, and died there. He wrote
Esh Dat (1718), homilies on the Torah, and at the end
of that work, Muẓẓal
me-Esh by his uncle Jacob; and Maggid me-Reshit, a
collection of responsa by his grandfather Ḥayyim the Elder, which closes
with Derekh ha-Kodesh (1710). Alfandari's kabbalistic works
have not survived.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
N.Ḥ. Ḥayon, Ha-Kolot Yeḥdalun (Amsterdam, 1725), 6a;
Leḥishat Saraf (letters against Ḥayon, 1726), 11b, 14b;
Rosanes, Togarmah, 4 (1935), 195–7; I. Ben-Zvi, in: Reshumot,
5 (1953), 56; I. Molcho and A. Amarilio, in: Sefunot, 3–4
(1959–60), 222–5, 227; Y. Nadav, ibid., 325; R. Shatz,
ibid., 429, 431.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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