ISAAC BEN SAMSON HA-KOHEN
- ISAAC BEN SAMSON HA-KOHEN
- ISAAC BEN SAMSON HA-KOHEN (d. 1624), talmudist of Bohemia.
Isaac was born in Prague and married the daughter of
judah loew b. bezalel of Prague. He served as a rabbi in Vienna
and Nikolsburg, later becoming dayyan and leader of the
Prague community. He was renowned both for his extensive talmudic
knowledge and philanthropic activities. His opinions on halakhic
questions, as well as his approbation of contemporary works, were widely
sought. He is believed to be the author of a Yiddish translation of the
Pentateuch that first appeared in Basle in 1583, or to have supplemented
this work with midrashic explanations appearing for the first time in
the Prague edition (1610), which contains a poem with his name in
acrostics. He wrote a supplement to the Ḥatan Damim of
solomon runkel on the Pentateuch (Prague, 1606); published Isaac
b. Judah ha-Levi's Pa'ne'aḥ Raza, with his own introduction
(ibid., 1607) and commentary on Midrash Psalms, Midrash
Proverbs, and Midrash Samuel (ibid., 1613).
He edited the sermon delivered by his father-in-law on the festival of
Shavuot, in Posen in 1592, entitled Derush al ha-Torah,
adding to it notes, an index of sources, and three introductory poems
(ibid., 1953). He also wrote introductions to Ḥayyim b.
Bezalel 's Sefer ha-Ḥayyim (Cracow, 1593) and to Meir of
Rothenburg's responsa (Prague, 1608). A work called Sidrei
Bereshit remained uncompleted. He accompanied his father-in-law
when he was received in audience by the emperor Rudolph in 1592 and
reported on the interview. His sons Ḥayyim and naphtali also
served as rabbis; his daughter Eva married Samuel Bachrach of Worms.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
K. Lieben, Gal Ed (1856), no. 84 (Hebrew section); S. Buber
(ed.), Midrash Tehillim (Shoḥer Tov) (1891), introd., 114
n.4; N. Gruen, Der Hohe Rabbi Loew (1895), 24, 29; E.
Schulmann, Sefat Yehudit-Ashkenazit ve-Sifrutah (1903), 10f;
I.Z. Kahana, in: Arim ve-Immahot be-Yisrael, 4 (1950), 262f.
(Samuel Abba Horodezky)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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