"
THE
379 He He
onjciyid a considfniblo reputation as a f-asuist. iiuntioncd in the wortcs of liiscoiitcmporaiics, .Saiiiiul di Medina (D'ltTinD), David bcu Abi Zinira (T'aiT), and Joseph ibu Lab, who highly esteemed is
liini.
Biiii.ioiiRAPiiY
Or
MIcbael,
lia-IJamilm, No.
8.V1.
b. Judah Alfual : C'abalist; fioiiiisliiMl in llic sccdiid liiilldt thi' siMci-nlli ci-iilury died 157i). Pciliaps he is idiiilical with the All'iial who lived in C'liios in I.ITH (Abr. de Hoton. " He-
Isaac b. ^fayyim
sponsa," No. 24). and with the Isiuic 1). Santiiel Hay vim. wlioni the autliof of the "Shalsliclct haKabi)alali " nicnliims as a noted caljalist of S]ianisli origin led. 'Warsaw. IHSii, j). K7). His posthumous worli. " Nofet Zulim " (Drops from the Hoiieyeonil)). whieli was edited liy liis sun. Ilayyim ben Isaae Alfual. Constantinople, l.'iS','. is iKiw rare. It contains interi)r<'tationsof the Torah. alphabetieally an-anged and based on the three cabalistic met hods of exegesis: namely, gtmiitn'K, zinifim, and rii.sln' tibot the numerical value, the comliinaiion. and the initials of words.
—
Wiilf. Ttihl. Hrhr. I. llt)8, Iv. fiOl): Stelnsdim'lcol. lOMi; lii-iijaeub, 0?ai' ha-Stfiiriiii, p. A'H.
Bnii.iocn.vPMY iler. Vat. liiiiU.
H. G. E.
Joseph ben liviil
ill
till'
?ayyim
Alfual
Of Saragossa
Lived in Iluisen in the thirlciiith century. lie translated {M'.)') the Mishiiali into S|)aiiisli, and the conuneiitary of Maimonides on the seclion " ,Moed " from the Arabic into Hebrew. This translation is i)receded by a poetical iiitrodiiction in which each verse begins with lie last word of the preceding verse (Steinschneider, •llebr. Bibl.'Mx. i:!S: "Ilebr. Cebers, " p. 923).
I
Joseph ben Solomon Alfual
Wrotea commen-
tary oil tlic Canticles, a niaiiuseri|it of which exists in the Vatican Librarv (see Sallild in " .Maga/.in." vi. 30. 204; i'liin. "Die Krkliirer des Ilohen Liedes," p.
and
in "Ilelir. Hilil." i.
i;iS).
Munajjim ibn al-Fawwal Of
Saragossji; lived the clevcnili century. According to Ibn Abi Oseibia, he was a i)hysician of renown, and well versed in logic and philosophy. He wrote a work in Arabic, called " Kanz al >Iakl." in tlw form of (piestions and answers, to which he added the rules of logic and the iniiiciplcs of physics (see " Ibn Abi Oseibia," ed. A 11 1:11st .Ml'ijler.ii, .")(), KiHiigsberg, ISW; Steinschneider. llelir. libers." p. it23).
in
Samuel ben Judah Alfual ill
llie Iliirteeiilli
Hebrew
of
Lived
in
ceiilmy
ALGABA, JACOB into
llie
MOSES
Saragossa G.
B. DI Translator cclehialed medieval romance,
'"Amadis de Gaul." Tlic translation probably a|)pearcd at Constantinople between l.")li4 and I'M. A ropy of the work, which is extremely rare, is in
The
may
Museum
(see the "Catalogue" of Van 11, I-ondon, IS!M). name Algaba. as .'^leinsehneider suggests,
the Hritish Slnialen, p.
be cither a patronym, or an apocope of the In the latter ease form Wdiild be "Algabai."
Hebrew word 'X33 ("treasurer"). its full
Bini.ioim.riiY:
StcliiwIini'ldiT,
liiiiirt. Itir. X.
.11 1
llrlir.
I)eiijiir.il), (»{<i)-
fV/irrn. p. IBS: Jrir.
/iii-.sVMrlin, p.
- !».
H. G. E.
ALOAZI,
ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON:
Supposed to have lived 111 Siiiynm in Mi.'i'.l. and to have been the son of llieaiitlior lif the book. "Slienia' Sheloinoh " iSolomon's Fame), Smyrna, lt!.")!l. <-onlainini; iiomilctie
Very
little
9AYYIM
is
explanations of a part of theTorali.
known
ttlioiit
his writings.
J.
I'll.
Ralibi in Constantinople was a disciple of
in the siventeentli (ciitury. He .Joseph di Trani. and the author
of a commentary (The Book of the Highteoiisi. which is the part that treats of civil law in the ritual code "Toledot Adam wa-Hawwah." by K. .Teroliam ben Meshullam (thirteenth and fourteeiith centuries). This commentary was published, under the title "Netibot Mishpat " (The Paths of Justice), in Con-
on "Sefer Jlesharim
"
stantinople, l«(is (see bteinschncider, "Cat. Bodl." col. M21).
D.
ALGAZI, books:
DeieU
"
9AYYIM 1>.
li.i
I
In
ISAAC: Author of the The Wav of the Tree
y iin
'"
I
En Vamiir'iTl'ie Kight Eve).""Shaar Ye-
of Life),"
liudah" (The Gate of Judah);
all
published
nica, 1822.
at SaloCii.
.J.
ALOAZI,
5AYYIM BEN MENAHEM
Habbi of the island of Hliodes and .Smyrna: lived seventeenth century; author of " Hene Ilayyai " (Sons of Jly Life), containing notes and novella- in the sequence of the four Turim. It was edited by the author's pupil. Jleir Danon, Orthokoi in the
(near Con.stantinople). 1712. Appended to it are the author's "Hiddushim." mi.seellaiieous notes on ShcbuOt, Sanhedrin, Giltin. etc., edited by Hayyim ben Isaac Haphael Aifandari.
tliirlcciilb iiiilury.
Joseph ben Isaac Alfual
n."i;
ALGAZI,
m.
Alfonso Algazi
EN'CYCLOPEDIA
.IKWISII
nini.iooiiAi'iiv:
mill. Jml.
I.
p.
Benjaoob,
Ozar ha-Scfarim,
u.
m-,
FQrst,
- ir.
n.
ALGAZI, ISRAEL JACOB:
Great-grandson of Solomon Algazi the elder, and rabbi in Jerusidem in the ei.irhtcenth century. Besides contributing to dialectical, liturgical, aiid legal literature, he was the aullior of some valuable works on Talmudic metlioilolojry. Of these there exist: (1) "Ar'adeHabliaiiaii " (The Land of the Uabbis). a treatise on
Talmudic principles (Constantino|>le. 174.')); reediled bv Jacob Avas with the commentarv of Juda Avas, "'Afra de-Ara " (The Dust of the Land) (Leghorn, 1783); (2) "Slieerit Ya'akob " (The
his father, called
Hemnant
of Jacob), consisting of homilies (Constan-
tinople. 17.">1); the second jiart horn, 1700; (;!)"Ncot Yaakob"
Jacob), a
published at Leg(The Habitations of
volume of responsa and homilies (Smyrna.
1707); (4) "Shenia' Yaakob" (Hearken. O .Tacob'). homilies on (ienesis and ExihIus, the tirst of which was delivered at the bar-niizwah of his son and successor Yom T"h (173i(); (.")) "Emet le- Yaakob (.Jacob's Truth), on the laws concerning Scriplun' reading (Constantinople. 1704), of w hich Azidai niaile all epitome under the title" Le- David Emet "(David's Truth) (Leghorn, 1780), re|>rinted several times. Biiii.iiMii<.riiv: Aziilnl, .s'ln III lm-(l<ilnliii). ». v. sihui'liler, I'lU. liixU. a). lliC.
33n:
stelnI),
ALGAZI, MOSES BEN uiihr who
ABRAHAM nia
A
rab-
the seventeenth century. He was the brother of S<ilomoii Al.irazi the elder, anil wrote annotations to " Dobeb Sific Veshenim " (Smyrna, 1071) and "Sefat ICmel," two rabbinical wcirks of his gniiidfather, binieal
II0111
i-.|ii li
in
Siii
ill
Moscs IJeiiveniste the elder. The latti-r is a work on Hebrew elymoloiries published tngethcr with a poem of Isaac Tshelebi on the Hi-brew words Ix-Acconling to Zcdner,"Cal. Hebr. ginning with t," IJooks Hrit. Mils." p. TOO, it was published at I'ouslaiilinople in 17111); but according to Henjacob,"07,iir ba Sefariin," p. r)l»2, it was published there in I7'2'2-'J3 and 1807. lliMi iiiiiiiAi'iiv: Aiiilal. filirm lui-(lfiliiHm.».v. M'hiii'lilir. Cut. Uiitl. cul. KiW.
sjn;
Sli-lii-
