Tzadikim

Rabbi Judah ben Samuel Rosanes

Rabbi Judah ben Samuel Rosanes (1657-1727) was Rabbi of Constantinople and son-in-law of Abraham Rosanes

Born: 1657
Died: 1727 (5487), 1727
 

Judah ben Samuel Rosanes (1657-1727) was Rabbi of Constantinople and son-in-law of Abraham Rosanes I. His teachers in Talmud and rabbinics were Samuel ha-Levi and Joseph di Trani the Younger. On account of his knowledge of Arabic and Turkish he was appointed by the government as chief rabbi ("hakam bashi") of the Ottoman empire. 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 (comp. Jacob Emden, Torat ha-Ḳena'ot, Lemberg, 1870). He wrote:

  • Parashat Derakim (Constantinople, 1727), a work containing twenty-six homiletic treatises on various subjects.
  • A pamphlet entitled Derek Miẓwoteka, a treatise on the 613 commandments, based on the treatises on the same subject by Maimonides and others.
  • Mishneh la-Melek (ib. 1731), glosses and comments on Maimonides' Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah; later it was printed together with the Yad (Jessnitz, 1739-1740).

This work and others were edited & published by his devoted pupil Rabbi Yaakov Culi.

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

 

May the merit of the tzaddik  Rabbi Judah ben Samuel Rosanes  protect us all, Amen.

Light a virtual Candle
  • Soul Elevations

    • Jesus Maria Valencia Tapiero ben Jesus Devia
    • שיינה מינדל בת ר' יחיאל הלל
    • רבי יחיאל הלל בן רבי יעקב
    • Yitzchok ben Shlomo
  • Healing

    • Yanon ben Hagit
    • Leticia bat Estela
    • Noah ben Serah
    • Baruch ben Patricia Ruth
    • Adiel ben Michal
    • Tomer ben Keren
    • Joel ben Midge
    • Luiz ben Maria
    • Amir ben Michal
    • ייטב לב בן וורד
    • Rosa Magda bat Rosa
    • Levi ben Nechama
    • Liam ben Serah
    • Itzhak ben Sarah
    • Eitan ben Sheli
    • Roi ben Roit
    • Carol Chanah Dinah bat Fortuna Mazal
    • Dvir ben Yael
    • Moshe Naftali ben Avraham
  • Success in life

    • Ingrid bat Horst
    • Yaakov Bourla ben Itzhak
    • Alexandra bat Adrian
    • Alberto ben Alberto
    • Moshe Daniel Yitro ben Pedro Shaul
    • Daniel ben Shimon
    • Daniel ben Moshe
    • Luis Felipe ben Guadalupe Argimiro
    • Dania Nechama bat David Levi
    • Rachel leah bat Abraham
    • Sarah bat Primo
    • Luiz ben Lino
Light a virtual Candle


Hillulot | Biographies | Prayers | Virtual Candle