Isaac ben Judah Rapoport HaKohen (יצחק רפפורט הכהן) was an 18th-century

rabbi A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as ''semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of ...

who lived in

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; born and died at

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, a pupil of rabbi

Hezekiah da Silva Rabbi Hezekiah da Silva (also Hezekiah Silva) (1659–1698) () was a Jewish author born in Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He was the son-in-law of the dayan Mordechai Rafael Malachi. Biography Hezekiah Da Silva was born in 1659 in Livorno, Gr ...

. After a journey to Europe in behalf of the

halukka The ''halukka'', also spelled ''haluka'', ''halukkah'' or ''chalukah'' ( he, חלוקה) was an organized collection and distribution of charity funds for Jewish residents of the Land of Israel (the Holy Land). General method of operation Symp ...

fund, he was elected rabbi of

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, where he remained forty years. At an advanced age he returned to Jerusalem, where he was appointed to a rabbinate. He was the author of a work entitled ''Batei Kehunah'' (Hebrew: בתי כהונה, "Houses of the priesthood"). The first part contains

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and treatises on the

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(Smyrna, 1741); the second part consists of sermons, together with studies on the

Talmud The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cente ...

(Salonica, 1744).

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, ''Bibliotheca Judaica'', iii. 130-131.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rapoport, Isaac Ha Kohen Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature 18th-century rabbis in Jerusalem

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