Isaac ben Jacob Ḥayyut (died 1726) was a
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.
He was descended from an old
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family which first settled in
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, and was the grandson of Rabbi
Menahem Manesh Hayyut of
Wilna
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.
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He became rabbi of ]Skole
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Population:
History
The earliest written menti ...
, near Lviv
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, late in life, and remained there until his death.[
He wrote thirteen works, which are enumerated in the preface to his "''Zera' Yiẓḥaḳ''" () on the ]Mishnah
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, which was published by his son Eliezer ( Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1732). His "''Iggeret Ḳeẓ Ḥai''" (Hebrew: ),kabbalistic
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manner "terrible things which he had seen in the upper world," was published in Chernivtsi
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in 1862.[
He died at Skole in September, 1726.][ Its bibliography:
* Fuenn, ''Ḳiryah Ne'emanah'']
p. 64
Wilna, 1860;
*idem, ''Keneset Yisrael''
p. 612
Warsaw, 1886;
* Zedner,
p. 184
Chayuth, Isaac ben Jacob;
* Buber, ''Anshe Shem'', pp
118
119, Cracow, 1895.
References
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1726 deaths
18th-century Polish rabbis
Year of birth missing
Place of birth missing