Hayyim Abraham Israel ben Benjamin Ze’evi

Abraham Israel Ze'evi (Hebrew: אברהם ישראל זאבי‎) (c. 1650 – 1731) was an 18th-century Israeli rabbi at Hebron.

Title page of Orim Gedolim, 1758

Life

Ze'evi was a great-grandson of Jerusalem rabbi Israel ben Azariah Ze'evi,[1] and grandson of the Moroccan kabbalist Abraham Azulai.[2] He was a pupil of his uncle, Isaac Azulai[3] and was married to the daughter of Abraham ben Levi Conque.[4] His cousin, Abraham ben David Yitzhaki, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, married his daughter.[5]

From 1701 to 1731, Ze'evi was chief rabbi of Hebron[6] where he headed the "Emeth le-Ya'akov" yeshivah which had been founded by Abraham Pereira of Amsterdam.[1] It was the oldest such college still functioning in Hebron at the turn of the 20th century.[6] He also acted as an emissary of Hebron, visiting Constantinople in 1685[1] where he met Tzvi Ashkenazi.[7]

Works

He authored a number of works including:

  • Orim Gedolim (The Great Lights) — a treatise on rabbinical law which included talmudic novellae, sermons and responsa; (Smyrna, 1758).[4]

References
  1. Encyclopaedia Judaica (1972). Encyclopaedia Judaica. Encyclopaedia Judaica. p. 636. ISBN 978-965-07-0185-7.
  2. Isaac Azulai, Jewish Encyclopedia.
  3. Cecil Roth (1972). Encyclopaedia Judaica. Encyclopaedia Judaica. p. 1015. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  4. Gaon, Moses David (1928). Yehude ha-mizrah be-Erets Yiśraʼel. Jerusalem: Ezriel. p. 282.
  5. Ze'evi, Abraham Israel (2003). Urim Gedolim. Lakewood: Mishnas Rebbi Aaron. p. i.
  6. Hebron, Jewish Encyclopedia.
  7. חכמי חברון לדורותם Archived 2012-04-06 at the Wayback Machine.
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