ḤABIB, ḤAYYIM BEN MOSES BEN SHEM TOV
- ḤABIB, ḤAYYIM BEN MOSES BEN SHEM TOV
- ḤABIB, ḤAYYIM BEN MOSES BEN SHEM TOV (16th
century), rabbinical author. Among the Jews exiled from Portugal in
1497, he escaped to Fez. In 1505 he compiled over 3,000 responsa of
solomon b. abraham adret , in Sefer ha-Battim.
Ḥ.J.D. Azulai heard of the existence of the manuscript in Fez.
Joseph Samon, the author of Edut Bi-Yhosef, eventually took
it to Jerusalem, where it came into the possession of Sussman Jawitz
(1813–1881), father of the historian Ze'ev Jawitz who had
emigrated to Jerusalem from Warsaw (see introduction to Berakhah
Meshulleshet, Warsaw, 1863). Sefer ha-Battim was
published by Sussman's son Abraham, together with the glosses of Isaac
Goldman who had also published Adret's novellae on tractate
Menaḥot. Ḥabib's characteristic signature: "Ḥayyim b. Moses
ibn Habib whose knees did not kneel to Baal, nor to fire and wood," is
probably an allusion to his flight from Portugal.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fuenn, Keneset, 355; J.M. Toledano, Ner ha-Ma'arav (1911),
86; Azulai, 2 (1852), 21 no. 131.
(Simon Marcus)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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