Rabbi is the term in Judaism for a religious teacher. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ‘great’ in many senses, including "revered." The word comes from the Semitic root R-B-B, and is cognate to Arabic ربّ rabb, meaning "lord" Rabbi and lived in the town of
LucenaLucena is a town in southern Spain, in the province of Córdoba, in Andalusia, 60 km southeast of Córdoba, 85 km north of Málaga, 140 km east of Seville, 105 km west of Granada, and 90 km southwest of Jaén....
, where he also headed a rabbinic academy. He died in
Cordoba||-||-||}Córdoba is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. Located at 37.88° North, 4.77° West, on the Guadalquivir river, it was founded in ancient Roman times as Corduba by Claudius Marcellus...
.
According to some authorities he was the teacher of
Isaac AlfasiIsaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif , was a Talmudist and posek . He is best known for his work of halakha, the legal code Sefer Ha-halachot, considered the first fundamental work in halakhic literature...
; according to others, his fellow pupil. The best known of his pupils were his son Judah ibn Ghayyat, Joseph ibn Sahl, and
Moses ibn EzraRabbi Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as ha-Sallah was a Jewish, Spanish philosopher, linguist, and poet. He was born at Granada about 1055 – 1060, and died after 1138.-Family:He was related to Abraham ibn Ezra and a pupil of Isaac ibn Ghiyyat...
. He was held in great esteem by Samuel ha-Nagid and his son Joseph, and after the latter's death (1066), Ibn Ghayyat was elected to succeed him as rabbi of Lucena, where he officiated until his death.
He was the author of a compendium of ritual laws concerning the festivals, published by
BambergerBamberger as a surname may refer to:* Ármin Vámbéry , Hungarian orientalist* Cyril Stanley Bamberger , Battle of Britain Pilot* Eugen Bamberger , German chemist...
under the title of
Sha'are Simḥah (Fürth, 1862; the laws concerning the
PassoverPassover is a Jewish and Samaritan holy day and festival commemorating the Hebrews' escape from enslavement in Egypt....
were republished by Zamber under the title
Hilkot Pesaḥim, Berlin, 1864), and a philosophical commentary on
EcclesiastesEcclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible...
, known only through quotations in the works of later authors (Dukes, in
Orient, Lit. x. 667-668). The greatest activity of Ibn Ghayyat was in liturgical poetry; he was an author of hundreds of piyyutim, and his hymns are found in the Maḥzor of Tripoli under the title of
Sifte Renanot.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
- Joseph Derenbourg
Joseph Derenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg was a Franco-German orientalist.He was born in Mainz , as a youngest son of the lawyer Jacob Derenburg....
, in Geiger's Wiss. Zeit. Jüd. Theol. v. 396-412;
- Michael Sachs
Michael Sachs was a German rabbi from Glogau , Silesia.He was one of the first Jewish graduates from the modern universities, earning a Ph.D. degree in 1836. He was appointed Rabbi in Prague in 1836, and in Berlin in 1844...
, Religiöse Poesie, pp. 259-262;
- Grätz
Graetz or Grätz is a German surname and place name and can refer to:* Heinrich Graetz , the first modern historian to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective...
, Gesch. 3d ed., vi. 61, 77;
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. pp. 194-200;
- idem, in Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1839, p. 480;
- L. Dukes, in Orient, Lit. ix. 536-540; x. 667, 668;
- Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Ahodah, pp. 111-116;
- De Rossi, Dizionario, pp. 173-174;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 1110-1111.
External links
- Jewish Encyclopedia article on Isaac ben Judah ibn Ghiyyat, by Gotthard Deutsch
Gotthard Deutsch , also spelled Gottard Deutsch, was a scholar of Jewish history.- Education :Deutsch was born in Kanitz, Moravia, Austria, as Eliezer Deutsch, the son of Bernhard L. Deutsch, a merchant, and Elise Wiener. He always called himself Gotthard, an attempted translation into German) of...
and M. Seligsohn.
- Sha'are Simḥah Vol. 1 Ibn Ghiyyat's Compendium of Ritual Laws Concerning the Festivals
- Sha'are Simḥah Vol. 1 Ibn Ghiyyat's Compendium of Ritual Laws Concerning the Festivals
- Hilkhot Pesaḥim Ibn Ghiyyat's Compendium of Ritual Laws Concerning Passover