Bezalel Ashkenazi

Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi (Hebrew: בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי) (c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Israel during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of the Shitah Mekubetzet, a commentary on the Talmud.^[a] Among his disciples were Isaac Luria and Solomon Adeni.

Ashkenazi was one of the leading Eastern Talmudists and rabbis of his day. He was probably born in the indigenous Land of Israel. Descended from a family of German scholars, most of his life was spent in Egypt Eyalet, where he received his Talmudic education from David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra and Israel ben Meir di Curiel. During the lifetime of his teachers, Ashkenazi was regarded as one of the highest authorities in the Orient, and counted Isaac Luria and Solomon Adeni among his pupils. In Egypt his reputation was such that he could abrogate the dignity of the nagid, which had existed for centuries and had gradually deteriorated into an arbitrary aristocratic privilege. When, in 1587, a dispute occurred in Jerusalem over the extent to which scholars not engaged in business should contribute to the taxes paid by the Jewish community to the pasha, Ashkenazi, together with several other rabbis, took the stand that Jewish scholars, being usually impelled by love alone to emigrate to the Land of Israel, and being scarcely able to support themselves, should be relieved from all taxes.

In the same year, Ashkenazi travelled to the Land of Israel, settling in Jerusalem, where he was recognized as important by both Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities. The conditions in Jerusalem were at this time very critical; and it was mainly due to Ashkenazi's influence that the congregations of the city were not dissolved. German Jews, who normally did not recognize the jurisdiction of the Sephardim and who, being largely scholars, refused to pay the Jews' tax, nevertheless recognized Ashkenazi's authority. However this arrangement between the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim seems to have been solely due to the personal influence of Ashkenazi; as it ended immediately after his death.

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 تتضمن هذه المقالة نصًا من منشور أصبح الآن ملكًا عامًا : غوتهارد دويتش ولويس غينزبيرغ (1901-1906). "أشكنازي، بيزاليل" . في سينغر، إيزيدور ؛ وآخرون (محررون). الموسوعة اليهودية . نيويورك: فونك وواغنالز.   قائمة مراجعها: حاييم أزولاي ، شيم ها-جدوليم، أد. بنجاكوب، i.36؛ ديفيد كونفورتي ، كور ها دوروت (انظر الفهرس في كاسيل إد.)؛ فرومكين، ابن شموئيل، ص  67 وما يليها، 125 وما يليها، فيلنا، 1874؛ مايكل ، أور ها حاييم ، رقم 612؛ لونكز ، في القدس، ii.23–27؛ رد يوم طوف زحالون ، رقم 160.