Isaac ha-Kohen Rapoport

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Isaac ben Judah ha-Kohen Rapoport was a rabbi who lived in the Land of Israel, of the eighteenth century; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of R. Hezekiah da Silva.

After a journey to Europe in behalf of the Chalukkah fund (ḥaluḳḳah fund), he was elected rabbi of Smyrna, where he remained forty years. At an advanced age he returned to Jerusalem, where he was appointed to a rabbinate.

He was the author of a work entitled Batte Kehunnah. The first part contains responsa and treatises on the poseḳim (Smyrna, 1741); the second part consists of sermons, together with studies on the Talmud (Salonica, 1744).

[edit] Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography

• Fürst, Bibliotheca Judaica, iii. 130-131.

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• http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=112&letter=R&search=isaac%20ben%20Judah%20ha-Kohen%20Rapoport#286 This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.