ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM RAPHAEL BEN ASHER
- ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM RAPHAEL BEN ASHER
- ḤAYYIM ABRAHAM RAPHAEL BEN ASHER (d. 1772), Jerusalem rabbi
and kabbalist. Ḥayyim was a member of the bet din of
Raphael Meyuḥas\>\> , and later av bet din in Jerusalem.
Toward the end of his life, in 1771, he was appointed rishon
le-Zion (Sephardi chief rabbi). In 1731 (or 1734) he published in
Constantinople the Sha'arei Kedushah of Ḥayyim Vital\>\>
. Between the years 1734 and 1765 he traveled as an emissary of
Jerusalem, seeking contributions in Constantinople, Italy, France, and
Egypt. Ḥayyim was a signatory of the Shetar Hitkasherut
("articles of association") of the society of kabbalists. Head of the
yeshivah Yefaʾer Anavim in Jerusalem, he cosigned the
takkanah forbidding bachelors between the ages of 20 and 60
from residing in Jerusalem. He gave approbations to many works, among
them the Zivḥei Shelamim of Judah Diwan (Constantinople
1728), and the Shulḥan Gavoha of Joseph Molkho, Salonika,
OḤ 1756; YD 1764. He died during a famine
and plague that raged in Jerusalem.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 98f.; Yaari, Sheluḥei, 289–91; Rosanes,
Togarmah, 5 (1938), 240, 243; Katsh, in: Sefunot, 9 (1964),
323–35.
(Simon Marcus)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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