IBN YAḤYA, JOSEPH BEN DAVID
- IBN YAḤYA, JOSEPH BEN DAVID
- IBN YAḤYA, JOSEPH BEN DAVID (1494–1534), exegete and
philosopher. Ibn Yaḥya was born in Florence, italy , his parents
having fled to that country from portugal . The family
finally settled in the city of Imola. He
studied in the yeshivah of R. Judah mintz in Padua. Of his works
only two have been preserved: (1) Perush Ḥamesh Megillot
u-Ketuvim (Bologna, 1538); and (2) Torah Or, on
eschatology (Bologna, 1538), the introduction to which contains
interesting autobiographical details. Two other works, Derekh
Ḥayyim, commentary on talmudical sayings, and Ner
Miẓvah on the commandments, which, according to Benjacob, were
parts of his Torah Or, were accidentally consigned to the
flames at the burning of the Talmud in Padua in 1554. Joseph had three
sons, one of whom was Gedaliah ben Joseph Ibn Yaḥya , the author
of Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah. His request to his sons that he be
buried in Ereẓ Israel was fulfilled ten years after his death,
joseph caro arranging for his burial in Safed.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Benjacob, Oẓar, 116, no. 415; 404, no. 314; 465, no. 290; 644, no. 444;
Graetz, Gesch, 9 (18913), 199.
(Hirsch Jacob Zimmels)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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