ROSANES, JUDAH BEN SAMUEL — (1657–1727), Turkish rabbi, posek and preacher. Rosanes was born in Constantinople. He studied under R. Solomon ha Levi the Elder and R. Joseph b. Isaiah Trani (grandson of joseph b. moses trani ). In his youth, he worked in the business of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ROSANES — (Rosales), Spanish family originating in the town of Castallvi de Rosanes, near Barcelona. With the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the members of this family emigrated to Portugal. There they were compelled to convert to Christianity, changing … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BULAT, JUDAH BEN JOSEPH — (c. 1475–c. 1540), talmudist who settled in Turkey after the expulsion from Spain. The first mention of him is in 1510, when he published the second and corrected edition of the Halikhot Olam (Constantinople, 1510) of Yeshu ah b. Joseph ha Levi.… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ḤAYYIM JUDAH BEN ḤAYYIM — (17th–18th century), talmudist, rabbi of Janina (Ioannina), Greece. Ḥayyim Judah was born in Salonika, where he studied under solomon amarillo , whose daughter he married. Toward the end of his life he emigrated to Jerusalem, where he had many… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LEON, MESSER DAVID BEN JUDAH — (1470/72?–1526?), rabbi and religious philosopher. Born in Mantua, Italy, Leon studied in his father s yeshivah in Naples, where he was ordained at the age of 18 by French and German rabbis. He then went to the yeshivah of Judah Minz in Padua. In … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BOTON, ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH DI — (1710?–after 1780), Turkish talmudist and halakhist. Born in salonika , in his youth he was already considered one of its great scholars. Some time before 1753, he was appointed chief rabbi of Monastir (Bitolj), where he served until his death.… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LONZANO, MENAHEM BEN JUDAH DE — (1550–before 1624), linguist, poet, and kabbalist. Little is known about his life, but it is assumed that he was born in Constantinople. At the age of 25 he immigrated to jerusalem and later moved to safed . Forty years later, he went to turkey… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ISTANBUL — ISTANBUL, city in N.W. turkey , on both sides of the Bosphorus at its entrance on the Sea of Marmara (for history prior to 1453, see constantinople ). Constantinople was taken from the Byzantine emperor in 1453 by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Yaakov Culi — Rabbi Yaakov Culi (a.k.a Kuli or Chuli) was a Talmudist and Biblical commentator of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who died in Constantinople on August 9, 1732. He belonged to an exiled Spanish family, and was the grandson and pupil of… … Wikipedia
CODIFICATION OF LAW — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the concept and its prevalence in other legal systems in jewish law in the mishnah format and style of the mishnah the talmud and post talmudic halakhic literary forms variety of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
