Yaakov Shaul Elyashar

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Yaakov Shaul Elyashar
Rishon LeZion
Began1893
Ended1906

Yaakov Shaul Elyashar (1 June 1817 – 21 July 1906), also known as Yisa Berakhah, was a 19th-century

Sephardi rabbi in Ottoman Syria. He became Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Palestine
in 1893.

Biography and rabbinic career

Yaakov Shaul Elyashar was born in

dayan in Jerusalem and sent as the emissary of Jerusalem's Sephardic community to Alexandria. He was to persuade the Jewish community there to annul its decision to cease receiving rabbinic emissaries from the Land of Israel. He was successful in persuading them to annul the decision and invited to become the city's rabbi (an offer he refused).[1] He became the associate head of the Jerusalem beth din
in 1855 and head of the beth din in 1869.

In 1893, he became the

Rishon LeZion, or Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Palestine, following the death of Rishon LeZion Raphael Meir Panigel. He remained in the position for the next thirteen years until his death in 1906. Rabbi Shmuel Salant
was the chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi community at the time and they enjoyed very warm relations and collaborated on various issues affecting the entire Jewish community in Palestine.

Elyashar wrote thousands of responses to questions from

Temanim throughout the world—most of which were published in the Questions and Responsa "Maase Ish".[2]

Commemoration and legacy

The Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Shaul is named after Elyashar.[3]

One of his great-grandchildren was Israeli politician and writer Eliyahu Elyashar.

References

  1. ^ "Hacham Yaakov Shaul Elyashar : HeHaCham HaYomi (The Daily Sage)".
  2. ^ Questions and Responsa "Maase Ish", Jerusalem 1892; a microfilm of book available at the Hebrew University Library of Jerusalem (Givat-Ram Campus), Manuscript Dept., microfilm no. 2005 F 435.
  3. ^ "Jerusalem Municipality - Official Website". drop-down menus: Community, Neighborhoods. Retrieved 2011-09-21.

External links

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