Joseph Escapa

Joseph Escapa

Joseph Escapa (c. 1572-1662) served in the rabbinate of Smyrna. He was probably born at Uskup, European Turkey, after which place he is named.

At first rabbi and chief of the yeshivah at Salonica, he later filled the same offices at Smyrna, where at the beginning he shared the rabbinate with Joshua Ashkenazi Azariah. When differences of opinion arose between them in regard to matters of ritual, they appealed to the rabbis of Salonica for arbitration. After his colleague's death, Escapa remained sole rabbi of Smyrna until the end of his life. David Conforte says he saw Escapa when the latter was about one hundred years old.

Escapa was especially known for having been the teacher of Shabbetai Tzvi and for having afterward excommunicated him. Escapa wrote an important work called "Rosh Yosef", a detailed commentary and "novellæ" on the "Arbah Turim" of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher. Part one, which has been published, contains a portion of the "Ṭur Oraḥ Ḥayyim" (Smyrna, 1658); part two, on "Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ", has been published up to ch. 76 (Smyrna, 1659). He also wrote "responsa"; some were published under the title of "Teshubot Rosh Yosef" (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1709).

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

*Azulai, "Shem ha-Gedolim", i.76;
*David Conforte, "Kore ha-Dorot", ed. Cassel, p. 46a, Berlin, 1846;
*Moritz Steinschneider, "Jewish Literature", p. 216;
*idem, "Cat. Bodl." col. 1458;
*Joseph Zedner, "Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus." p. 350;
*Heinrich Grätz, "Gesch." 3d ed., x.187, 190.

References

*JewishEncyclopedia


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