Turkish Biblical exegete and preacher in the second half of the sixteenth century; a descendant of Joseph JABEZ. He wrote: (1) "Ḥasde Abot," commentary on Pirḳe Abot (Constantinople, 1583); (2) "Yafiḳ Raáºon," homiletic explanations of the Hafá¹arot according to the German and Portuguese rites (Belvedere, 1593); (3) "Torat Ḥesed," commentaries on the Hagiographa, except Chronicles (ib. c. 1593-94); the commentary to each book has a subtitle indicating its contentsâas "Tehillot Adonai" (on Psalms), "Limmude Adonai" (on Proverbs), "Yir'at Shaddai" (on Job), "Ḳodesh Hillulim" (on Canticles), "áºemaḥ áºaddiḳ" (on Ruth)âand a commentary on the Pesaḥ Haggadah is appended to the work. All the hagiographic commentaries except those on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Esther are printed in the rabbinical Bible "Ḳehillat Mosheh," Amsterdam, 1727, the subtitles in a few cases being somewhat changed.