ISAAC BEN NOAH KOHEN SHAPIRA
- ISAAC BEN NOAH KOHEN SHAPIRA
- ISAAC BEN NOAH KOHEN SHAPIRA (late 16th–early
17th century), Polish rabbi and author. Isaac received his
talmudic education at the yeshivah of his uncle, Ḥayyim b. Samuel, rabbi
in Kremenets. At an early age he was appointed rabbi in Gorodnitsa,
later serving in Mezhirech. He was the author of an alphabetically
arranged compendium in rhymed verse of the four parts of the Shulḥan
Arukh under the title Sefer Zikkaron (also called
Zikhron Dinim or Kiẓẓur Pirkei Dinim, Cracow?,
1559?). He further published Petiḥat ha-Lev (Cracow, 1645?),
kabbalistic homilies on the Pentateuch, consisting of extracts from his
larger unpublished work " Harḥavat ha-Lev."
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Zunz, Gesch, 299; Carmoly, in: Ha-Karmel, 6 (1866/67), 301–2;
Fuenn, Keneset, 666.
(Jacob Freimann)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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