Englishעברית
Sign In Free Membership

יוסף בן יחיא

Joseph ibn Yahya ben Solomon

Rav Yosef ibn Yachya ben Shlomo — a talmid of the Rashba who wrote the kinah on his rebbe's passing.

Biography

Rav Yosef ibn Yachya ben Shlomo, whose name appears in English sources as Joseph ibn Yahya ben Solomon, was a talmid of the Rashba, Rav Shlomo ben Aderet, and composed a kinah upon his rebbe’s passing that was later reprinted. He also bore the cost of repairing a shul in Calatayud (province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain) that one of his forebears had built.

Joseph ibn Yahya ben Solomon was a prominent Portuguese biblical commentator.