Judah ben Samuel Rosanes (1657–1727) was

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and son-in-law of Abraham Rosanes I. His teachers in

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and rabbinics were Samuel HaLevi and Joseph di Trani the Younger. On account of his knowledge of

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and

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he was appointed by the government as chief rabbi ("

hakam bashi ''Haham Bashi'' (chachampasēs) which is explained as "μεγάλος ραβίνος" or "Grand Rabbi". * Persian: khākhāmbāšīgarī is used in the Persian version of the Ottoman Constitution of 1876. Strauss stated that there was a possibili ...

") of the

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. He died at an advanced age in Constantinople on April 13, 1727. Judah took a very active part in condemning and denouncing the Shabbethaians, and he was one of the signers of an appeal to the German communities to oppose the movement. He wrote: * ''Parashat Derakim'' (Constantinople, 1727), a work containing twenty-six homiletic treatises on various subjects. * A pamphlet entitled ''Derekh Miẓvotekha,'' a treatise on the 613

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, based on the treatises on the same subject by

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and others. * ''Mishneh la-Melek'' (ib. 1731), glosses and comments on Maimonides'

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; later it was printed together with the ''Mishneh Torah''.Jessnitz, 1739-1740 This work and others were edited and published by his devoted pupil Rabbi

Yaakov Culi Rabbi Yaakov Culi (a.k.a. Kuli or Chuli; he, יעקב כולי) was a Talmudist and biblical commentator of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who died in Constantinople on August 9, 1732. Biography He belonged to an exiled Spanish family, a ...

. Several works bear approbations ("haskamot") by Judah Rosanes, among others Joseph Almosnino's ''Edut bi-Yehosef.''

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* Sephardi rabbis 18th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire 1657 births 1727 deaths Rabbis from Istanbul Writers from Istanbul {{Turkey-rabbi-stub