HA-LEVI, SASSON BEN ELIJAH BEN MOSES
- HA-LEVI, SASSON BEN ELIJAH BEN MOSES
- HA-LEVI, SASSON BEN ELIJAH BEN MOSES (also known as R. Sasson
Smuha; 1820–1910), Baghdad rabbi and disciple of R.
abdullah somekh . Ha-Levi held the position of dayyan
from 1841 to 1876. In 1860 he intervened to prevent the expropriation
from Jewish hands of the traditional tomb of the prophet Ezekiel in the
village of Kifl. From 1876 to 1879 he was ḥakham bashi of
Baghdad. A controversy then broke out between him and several members of
the community, who deposed him and appointed R. Elisha Dangoor in his
place. A dispute ensued between the two during the years 1880 to 1885.
The majority of the rabbis supported Dangoor, while some of the wealthy
sided with Ha-Levi. The matter reached the chief rabbi of
Constantinople, who decided in favor of the former. Ha-Levi composed two
piyyutim, which have been included in books of liturgical
hymns.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Ben-Jacob, Yehudei Bavel (1965), 162f.
(Abraham Ben-Yaacob)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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