Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rabbi who lived in the land of israel”. Today it says “an 18th-century rabbi who lived in ottoman empire”.
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Isaac ben Judah Rapoport HaKohen (יצחק רפפורט הכהן) was an 18th-century rabbi who lived in Palestine ; born and died at Jerusalem , a pupil of rabbi 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.1 At an advanced age he returned to Jerusalem, where he was appointed to a rabbinate. He was the author of a work entitled Batei Kehunah (Hebrew: בתי כהונה "Houses of the priesthood"). The first part contains responsa and treatises on the poskim (Smyrna, 1741); the second part consists of sermons, together with studies on the Talmud (Salonica, 1744).
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The opening as it stood in 2010
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. 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).
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Isaac ben Judah Rapoport HaKohen (יצחק רפפורט הכהן) was an 18th-century rabbi who lived in Ottoman Empire ; born and died at Jerusalem , a pupil of rabbi Hezekiah da Silva . After a journey to Europe in behalf of the halukka 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 Batei Kehunah (Hebrew: בתי כהונה, "Houses of the priesthood"). The first part contains responsa and treatises on the poskim (Smyrna, 1741); the second part consists of sermons, together with studies on the Talmud (Salonica, 1744).
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rabbi who lived in the land of israel
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an 18th-century rabbi who lived in ottoman empire
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