ISRAEL, YOM TOV BEN ELIJAH
- ISRAEL, YOM TOV BEN ELIJAH
- ISRAEL, YOM TOV BEN ELIJAH (Sirizli; d. 1890), rabbi and
posek; born in jerusalem . His father was the rabbi of
the Cairo community, and when he died in 1866, Yom Tov Israel took his
place; before that he had held a high official position, as related by
jacob saphir in his description of Egypt in 1858. In 1884 Yom Tov
Israel returned to Jerusalem and served in the rabbinate until his
death. He was the author of Minhagei Miẓrayim (Jerusalem,
1873), on Jewish religious customs in Egypt, in the introduction to
which he lists all the rabbis who had served in Egypt from the days of
maimonides up to his own time. Some of his novellae on
halakhah were published in the collection Torah
mi-Ẓiyyon. He led the Jerusalem rabbis
who in 1888 permitted plowing and sowing in
the shemittah year (the Sabbatical Year); his decision on
this issue was published in Devar ha-Shemittah (Jerusalem,
1888).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 298; M.D. Gaon, Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ be-Ereẓ
Yisrael, 2 (1937), 295–6; J.M. Landau, Ha-Yehudim
be-Miẓrayim (1967), index.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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