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Israel Ze'evi
Israeli rabbi (1650–1731) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Abraham Israel Ze'evi (Hebrew: אברהם ישראל זאבי; 1650–1731) was a rabbi and Talmudist of Hebron.
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Life
Israel Ze'evi was born in Hebron in 1651.[1] He was a great-grandson of the Jerusalemite rabbi Israel ben Azariah Ze'evi,[2] and grandson of the Moroccan kabbalist Abraham Azulai.[1][3] His father died when he was but four years old, and he was educated by his mother[1] and uncle, Isaac Azulai.[4] At the age of eighteen he married a daughter of Abraham Cuenqui.[5] His cousin, Abraham ben David Yitzhaki, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, would later marry his daughter.[6]
From 1701 to 1731, Ze'evi was chief rabbi of Hebron[7] where he headed the "Emeth le-Ya'akov" yeshivah which had been founded by Abraham Pereira of Amsterdam.[2] It was the oldest such college still functioning in Hebron at the turn of the 20th century.[7] He also acted as an emissary of Hebron, visiting Constantinople in 1685,[2] where he met Tzvi Ashkenazi.[8]
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