Jacob ben Abraham Faitusi (died July 1812 in
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
) was a Tunisian Jewish scholar. He settled in the later part of his life at
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, whence he was sent as a collector of alms to Italy and Algeria.
Faitusi was the author of ''Berit Ya'aqob'' (Livorno, 1800), the contents of which were as follows: sermons;
Bezalel Ashkenazi's "Shittah Mequbbetzet" on
Sotah, with the editor's notes, entitled "Yagel Ya'aqob"; glosses of the
Geonim on the
Talmud
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ical treatises
Nedarim
In Judaism, a neder (נדר, plural ''nedarim'') is a kind of vow or oath. The neder may consist of performing some act in the future (either once or regularly) or abstaining from a particular type of activity of the person's choice. The concept o ...
and
Nazir, with the editor's notes; commentaries on Nazir by
Abraham ben Musa; "Sha'are Tzedeq," a commentary, attributed to
Levi ben Gershon
Levi ben Gershon (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as ''RaLBaG'', was a medieval French Jewish philosoph ...
, on the thirteen hermeneutic rules of
Rabbi Ishmael;