IBN EZRA, SOLOMON BEN MOSES — (d. 1688), Turkish rabbi. A pupil of joseph escapa , he became dayyan at Smyrna, where because of his knowledge of Turkish he was appointed secretary of the community as well as its representative (kehaja) in its dealings with the Turkish… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
EZRA BEN SOLOMON — (d. 1238 or 1245), one of the leading kabbalists of his day in Gerona, Spain. For a long time scholars thought him identical with Azriel b. Menahem of Gerona, since various authors attributed to Azriel works written by Ezra and vice versa.… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, BOOKS OF — EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, BOOKS OF, two books in the Hagiographa (i.e., the Book of Ezra and the Book of Nehemiah), which were originally a single work. The Masoretic tradition regarded the books of Ezra and Nehemiah as one book and referred to it as… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Solomon ben Abraham ibn Parhon — was a Spanish philologist of the 12th century, a native of Ḳal ah (Ḳal at Ayyub, Calatayud), Aragon. In the preface to his lexicon he mentions as his teachers, besides a certain R. Ephraim of whom nothing more is known, the two great Spanish… … Wikipedia
Solomon ibn Gabirol — Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah ( he. שלמה בן יהודה אבן גבירול, Shelomo ben Yehuda ibn Gevirol ; ar. أبو أيوب سليمان بن يحيى بن جبيرول, Abu Ayyūb Suleiman ibn Yahya ibn Jabirūl ; la. Avicebron, a corruption of Ibn Gabirol ) was an… … Wikipedia
Solomon's Temple — ( he. בית המקדש, transliterated Beit HaMikdash ), also known as the First Temple, was, according to the Bible, the first temple of the ancient religion of the biblical Israelites in Jerusalem. According to the Bible, it functioned as a religious… … Wikipedia
EZRA BEN NISAN — (1595–1666), karaite scholar and physician, leader of the community of Troki, Lithuania. In 1634 he fulfilled the duties of dayyan, and in 1640–43 held the position of shofet (judge). Ezra came in contact with the famous Jewish scholar and… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SOLOMON, SERVANTS OF — (Heb. ﬠַבְדֵי שְׁלֹמֹה). The Servants of Solomon are mentioned in I Kings 9:27 (cf. II Chron. 8:18) in an annalistic section (l Kings 9:15–28) that records the grandiose projects undertaken by King Solomon. These included construction within the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
EZRA — EZRA, family prominent in India in the 19th and 20th centuries. JOSEPH BEN EZRA BEN JOSEPH KHLEF (d. 1855), one of the notables of the Jewish community in Baghdad, traveled to India at the beginning of the 19th century. Together with his sons… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Solomon ben Elijah Sharbit — Ha Zahab was a Jewish astronomer, poet, and grammarian; he lived at Salonica and later at Ephesus, in the second half of the fourteenth century. Moritz Steinschneider supposes that the name Sharbiṭ ha Zahab is the Hebrew equivalent of the Greek… … Wikipedia
