Biography
Rabbi Israel Ze’evi was one of the Acharonim. He is cited in the supplied material in connection with the discussion in Akeidat Yitzchak (gate 18) concerning the purpose of existence and the benefit of circumcision, which completes the perfection of the human being, treated in the verse describing Avram at ninety-nine years.
The passage where his name appears brings the teaching of Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah on the loathsomeness of the foreskin, citing the verse from Yirmeyahu that “all the nations are uncircumcised” and the description in Shmuel of the Philistine as “this uncircumcised one.”
Where traditions differ. The supplied material provides little direct information about this sage beyond his appearance alongside an Akeidat Yitzchak passage; his specific teachings and works are not detailed here.
רבי אברהם ישראל זאבי, היה רב, דרשן וראש ישיבה. רבה של העיר חברון קרוב לשלושים שנה, ראש ישיבה במספר ישיבות שהתקיימו בה, ומחבר ספר דרוש בשם "אור לישרים", וספר שו"ת בשם "אורים גדולים".
Abraham Israel Ze'evi was a rabbi and Talmudist of Hebron.
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