Joshua Boaz ben Simon Baruch

Joshua Boaz ben Simon Baruch

Joshua Boaz ben Simon Baruch, (d. 1557), also known as the Shiltei Giborim after a work he authored, was a prominent Talmudist who lived at Sabbioneta, and later at Savigliano. He was a descendant of an old Judæo-Spanish family, and probably settled in Italy after the banishment of the Jews from Spain.

When he was twenty-three years old, he began to publish useful works on the Talmud, in which he displayed vast erudition.

Rulings

Among his rulings in Jewish Law is the consent for women to wear wigs. He argued that hairs which are not attached to the head are not subject to the prohibitions regarding modesty which requires the covering of a woman's hair. He claimed that the woman's duty to make herself attractive to her husband outweighed other objections. His ruling was later included in the great code of Jewish Law known as the Shulchan Aruch. [citeweb
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Works

* "Massoret ha-Shas" or "Massoret ha-Talmud", (trans. "Tradition of the Talmud"), an index of the parallel passages of the Talmud and the halakic Midrashim
* "En Mishpat, Ner Mitzvah", (trans. "The Wellspring of Justice, the Lamp of the Precept"), an index of the Talmudical Halakot quoted in Maimonides' "Yad ha-Chazakah" and in the "Turim "of Jacob ben Asher
* "Torah Ohr", (trans. "The Torah is Light"), an index of the Biblical passages mentioned in the Talmud. These three works were first published, together with the Talmud, at Venice, 1546-1551
* "Siddur Mordechai Ve-Simanav," a compendium of Mordecai ben Hillel's halakic work arranged according to the order of the "Yad ha-Chazakah." The same work was also published (Sabionetta, 1554) under the title "Siddur Dine Mordekai"
* "Shiltei ha-Gibborim", (trans. "Shields of Heroes"), a selection of critical notes on Alfasi's compendium of the Talmud, and on the "Mordechai." This work bears also the title "Sefer ha-Maḥloḳet."

References

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

*Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. iii. 571-573;
*Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii. 141, 142;
*Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1554;
*Julius Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 92;
*Marco Mortara, "Indice Alfabetico", p. 6;
*Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 672;
*Rabbinovicz, Ma'amar 'al Hadfasat ha-Talmud, pp. 43-45.


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