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Ḥayyon, Gedaliah

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Turkish rabbi: pupil of Alfandari the Younger (see Azulai, "Shem ha-Gedolim," and Grätz, "Gesch." 10:360); born at Constantinople in the second half of the seventeenth century. He settled at Jerusalem; subsequently he traveled as messenger of the city of Hebron, without receiving compensation, and afterward returned to Jerusalem (Azulai, c.; Luncz, "Jerusalem," 1:130, No. 238). A scholar by the same name was a contemporary of Elijah ibn Ḥayyim (comp. the latter's responsa, "Mayim 'Amuḳḳim No. 54; he is also mentioned once in the responsa of Samuel di Modena, Ṭur Eben ha-'Ezer, No. 36). This scholar may have been an ancestor of Gedaliah Ḥayyon. The latter is not known as a scholar, but he was a student of the Cabala, and was considered a man of extraordinary piety.

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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Ḥayyon, Gedaliah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/aayyon-gedaliah.html. 1901.
 
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