ḤAYYUN, JOSEPH BEN ABRAHAM
- ḤAYYUN, JOSEPH BEN ABRAHAM
- ḤAYYUN, JOSEPH Ben ABRAHAM (d. 1497), last rabbi of the
Jewish community of Lisbon before the expulsion. Among his distinguished
disciples were Abraham b. Nissim Ḥayyun and joseph jabez .
While Ḥayyun was still in Lisbon, isaac abrabanel consulted him on
various halakhic questions, concerning one of which he composed a tract,
Maggid Mishneh. After the decree of expulsion from Portugal
was issued in 1496, Ḥayyun went to Constantinople, where he died shortly
afterward. His published works are a commentary on the Book of Psalms
(Salonika, 1523), and Millei de-Avot, a commentary on
Avot (Constantinople, 1578; republ. Venice, 1606); a number
of his notes on the order of the haftarot are included in
Likkutei Man (Amsterdam, 1764). Other works remain in
manuscript.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Benjacob, Oẓar, 324 no. 1106, 641 no. 380; Ben-Sasson, in: Sefer
Yovel le-Y. Baer (1960), 217ff., 220; idem, in: Zion,
28 (1961), 56ff., 60; A. Yaari, Ha-Defus ha-Ivri be-Kushta
(1967), 128.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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