IBN YAḤYA, GEDALIAH BEN DAVID
- IBN YAḤYA, GEDALIAH BEN DAVID
- IBN YAḤYA, GEDALIAH BEN DAVID (1436–1487), physician and
philosopher. Born in Lisbon, he left Portugal with the intention of
settling in Ereẓ Israel, but on the way stopped in Constantinople, where
he became head of a yeshivah. His attempt to accede to the Karaite
request to be accepted into the fold of rabbinic Judaism was thwarted by
the opposition of the other rabbis. He subsequently set out for Ereẓ
Israel, but died on the way, and was buried in Safed. He wrote several
books, one of which, Sheva Einayim, was published
(Constantinople, n.d., and Venice n.d.). It is so called ("Seven Eyes,"
cf. Zech. 3:9) because it deals with seven motives which the author
regards as cardinal to Judaism.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Gedaliah ibn Yaḥya, Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah (Warsaw, 1877),
85; Rosaries, Togarmah, 1 (19302), 47; E. Carmoly,
Divrei ha-Yamim li-Venei Yaḥya (1850), 16–17.
(Hirsch Jacob Zimmels)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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