Isaac Aboab of Castile

Isaac II Aboab (also Abuab; * about 1433 in Toledo, † 1493 in Porto ) was a Castilian rabbi and was regarded as the "last gaon of Castile ."

Life

Isaac Aboab attended the Talmud school of Isaac Camp Anton (1360-1463) and took over the lead from him as his successor. A few months before the expulsion of the Jews from the Spanish Krongebiets in the wake of the Alhambra Edict of 1492, he obtained from King John II of Portugal for himself and 29 fellow Jews permission to settle with their families in Portugal. Shortly after moving to Porto, where they order of the king of the city in the rua de San Miguel thirty houses and a synagogue were made available, he died in the month of Adar of the year 1493rd

Works

In his youth he wrote a paradise named after the river Pishon work Nehar Pishon to explain difficult points in the Pentateuch, which was printed at the request of his son Jacob in 1538 in Constantinople Opel Eliezer of Soncino.

Receive is also a super comment to Nachmanides, a statement difficult passages from the Pentateuchkommentar, which was also printed on the initiative of his son in 1525 in Constantinople, Opel and was reprinted several times in the subsequent period (Venice 1548, Krakow 1587 Wilhermsdorf 1783).

A yet unpublished supercommentary to Rashi Pentateuchkommentar and other writings have been preserved in manuscripts in Oxford and Cambridge.

It is questionable, his authorship of Menorat ha - Manor ( " light-dispensing Santander candlestick " ), a very frequently printed and translated ethical- didactic treatise, which was first attributed to him in the 16th century by Gedaliah Jachia, but after Leopold Zunz, already has his ancestor Isaac I. Aboab was written at the beginning of the 14th century.