Aaron ben Isaac Lapapa (c. 1590–1674) was an Oriental
rabbi
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and
Talmudist. He was at first rabbi at
Manissa,
Turkey, and at an advanced age was called to
Smyrna as judge in civil affairs. In 1665, when the
Sabbatai Zevi movement was at its height there, he was one of the few rabbis who had the courage to oppose the false prophet and
excommunicate him. Sabbatai Zevi and his adherents retorted by deposing him and forcing him to leave the city, and his office was given to his colleague,
Ḥayyim Benveniste, at that time one of Sabbatai's followers. After Sabbatai's conversion to
Islam
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, Lapapa seems to have been reinstated.
Lapapa was a pupil of
Abraham Motal and son-in-law of
Solomon Algazi
Solomon Nissim Algazi (1610c. 1683) was rabbi in Smyrna and in Jerusalem in the 17th century. He was a prolific writer on all topics of rabbinical literature, and won distinction by his treatment of Talmudic hermeneutics and methodology.
His atte ...
. He wrote: ''Bene Aharon'', ''
responsa
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'' and ''novellæ'' (Smyrna, 1674); ''Teshubot'', ''responsa'', published in the ''Abaḳ Derakim'' of
Baruch Kalometi (Salonica, 1714); ''Yad Aharon'', an index to the
Talmud and to rabbinical literature (see Benjacob, ''Oẓar ha-Sefarim''). Two other works, a commentary to the ''Toledot Adam v'Chavah'' of
R. Jeroham, and a work called ''Shiṭṭot Meḳubbaẓot'', a collection of glosses on various Talmudic tractates, are mentioned by
David Conforte and
Azulai. An anonymous rabbinical decision, edited by
Abraham Palaggi in ''Abraham Azkir'' (Smyrna, 1889) and by
Simon Bernfeld
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in ''Ḳobeẓ al Yad'' (published by the
Meḳiẓe Nirdamim
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, Berlin, 1899), is attributed to him.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
*
Azulai, ''Shem ha-Gedolim'', s.v. Ḥayyim Benveniste;
*
Benjacob, ''Oẓar ha-Sefarim'', pp. 167, 478, 523;
*
David Conforte, ''Ḳore ha-Dorot'', pp. 45b, 51b;
*
Heinrich Grätz, ''Gesch.'' x.222;
*''
Ha-Shaḥar
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The journal contained scientific articles, essays, biographies, and literature, as well as general Jewish news. The ...
'', 1872, p. 288;
*
Moritz Steinschneider
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, ''Cat. Bodl.'';
*
Joseph Zedner
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After completing his education, he acted as teacher in the Jewish school in Strelitz (Mecklenburg), where the lexicographer Daniel Sanders wa ...
, ''Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus.'' s.v. and p. 408.
References
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1590s births
1674 deaths
17th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire
Smyrniote Jews