Isaac Lumbroso (1680–1752) was a chief rabbi of

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and rabbinical author. He was prominent in Tunisian Jewry, being judge of the community about 1710, an epoch coinciding with the schism which divided the Jews of the city into two camps, native Tunisians and Gournis or Italians. Lumbroso was appointed rabbinical judge of the latter; and, being a man of means, he filled at the same time the position of receiver of taxes to the ''

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'' or official representative of his community. From a literary point of view, Lumbroso, who was one of the most brilliant pupils of Rabbi Semaḥ Sarfati, was the most important among the Tunisian rabbis of the eighteenth century. He encouraged and generously assisted his fellow rabbis; and his reputation as a

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ist and Kabbalist survived him. He and Joshua Cohen Tanuji were both disciples of . Lumbroso was the author of "Zera' Yiẓḥaḳ," published posthumously at Tunis in 1768. This work is a commentary on the different sections of the Talmud. Several funeral orations, pronounced by Lumbroso on diverse occasions, are appended thereto.

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Zera' Yiṣḥaq
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lumbroso, Isaac 1752 deaths Writers from Tunis 18th-century Tunisian rabbis Talmudists Kabbalists Chief rabbis of populated places Year of birth unknown 1680 births Tunisian people of Italian-Jewish descent Tunisian theologians Jews and Judaism in Tunis

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