Berab

Post-Talmudic - Attempts To Revive Classical Semikhah - Attempt By Rabbi Jacob Berab, 1538
... In 1538 Rabbi Jacob Berab of Safed, Land of Israel, attempted to restore the traditional form of Semikhah ... At his prompting, 25 rabbis from the land of Israel convened they ordained Jacob Berab as their "chief rabbi" ... Berab then conferred semikhah through a laying on of hands to four rabbis, including Joseph Karo, who was later to become the author of the Shulchan Aruch, widely viewed as the most important code of Jewish law from ...

Jacob Berab - Chosen Rabbi At Eighteen
... Berab was born at born at Moqueda near Toledo, Castilian Spain in 1474 ... Gavison "Say not that the lamp of the Law no longer in Israel burneth! Jacob Berab hath come back—once more among us he sojourneth!" It is not known how long Berab ... Some years later (1527) Berab, now fairly well-to-do, resided in Damascus (Levi ibn Habib, "Responsa," p ...

Levi Ibn Habib
... There he met Jacob Berab, with whom he often came into conflict on questions of rabbinical law ... A serious quarrel broke out between these two rabbis when Berab, becoming chief rabbi of Safed, reintroduced the ancient practice of the ordination of rabbis ... controversy for some time, in the course of which Berab referred to Ibn Habib's adoption of Christianity ...

Joseph Ben Ephraim Karo - Authority Recognized
... At Safed he met Jacob Berab and was soon appointed a member of his rabbinical court ... Berab exerted a great influence upon him, and Karo became an enthusiastic supporter of Berab's plans for the restitution of semicha (rabbinical ordination) which had been in abeyance for over 11 centuries ... one of the first he ordained and after Berab's death, Karo tried to purpetuate the scheme by ordaining his pupil Moses Alshech, but he finally gave ...

Jacob Berab - Dispute With Ibn Habib
... To obtain the good-will of the Jews of the Holy City, the first use that Berab made of his new dignity was to ordain the chief rabbi at Jerusalem, Levi ibn Habib ... Since the latter had for many years been a personal opponent of Berab, and the two had had many disputes in regard to rabbinical decisions and approbations ... Moreover, the terms in which Berab officially announced Ibn Habib's ordination were kindly ones ...