Hanoch ben Moses

Hanoch ben Moses

R. Hanoch ben Moses (Hebrew: רבנו חנוך ב"ר משה) (d. 1014 or 1024) was a Spanish rabbi. Almost all of the information we have about him comes from Sefer ha-Qabbalah by R. Abraham ibn Daud. [Hebrew text online at [http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/ravad/ravad01.pdf Daat] .]

Along with his parents, R. Moses ben Hanoch and his wife (name unknown), R. Hanoch was captured by the Moorish pirate Ibn Rumahis and brought to Cordova. R. Hanoch eventually succeeded his father as Rabbi and Rosh Yeshivah there, although for a time he faced opposition by R. Joseph ibn Abitur and by the latter's patron, Yaakov ibn Jo, the lay leader of the Jewish community of the Caliphate of Cordoba.

His best-known student was R. Shmuel ha-Nagid.

Ibn Daud reports that relations between R. Hanoch and R. Hai Gaon were strained, since the increasing stature of the Spanish yeshivot led to a lessening of their communities' financial contributions to the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia. Indeed, R. Hanoch seems to have corresponded only rarely with the Babylonian Geonim. However, R. Hai demonstrated his respect for R. Hanoch, by honoring his excommunication of Ibn Abitur and refusing the latter an audience.

R. Hanoch left no written works, although there are some extant responsa between him and R. Hai, as well as between him and the then Gaon in the Land of Israel, R. Shmuel ha-Kohen.

He died of injuries following a fall, when the bimah in the Cordova synagogue collapsed on Simchat Torah. Ibn Daud dates this incident to 4775 (1014), but also states that it was thirteen years before the death of R. Hai in 4798, so that the correct reading should be 4785 (1024).

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