Samuel de Medina

Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina (abbreviated RaShDaM , Hebrew רשד"ם or Maharashdam ), was a Talmudist and author; born 1505; died October 12, 1589, at Salonica . He was principal of the Talmudic college of that city, which produced a great number of prominent scholars during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His teachers were the noted Talmudists Joseph Taitazak and Levi Ibn Chaviv , and among his schoolmates were Isaac Adarbi , Joseph ibn Leb , and Moses Almosnino . While on a mission to Constantinople he met the noted grammarian Menahem Lonzano , who studied under him for some time and who therefore speaks of him as his teacher ( David Conforte , Kore ha-Dorot, ed. Among Samuel's many disciples who attained prominence were Abraham de Boton and Joseph ibn Ezra . He had a controversy with Joseph Karo and other rabbis at Safed , against whom he wrote a polemical letter ( Ketav Tochachah ; see Azulai , Shem haGedolim , s.v.). A grandson of his was Samuel Hayyun , author of Bene Shemuel , novellae and responsa (Salonica, 1613?).

Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina (abbreviated RaShDaM , Hebrew רשד"ם or Maharashdam ; 1505 – October 12, 1589), was a Talmudist and author from Thessaloniki . He was principal of the Talmudic college of that city, which produced a great number of prominent scholars during the 16th and 17th centuries. His teachers were the noted Talmudists Joseph Taitazak and Levi Ibn Chaviv , and among his schoolmates were Isaac Adarbi , Joseph ibn Leb , and Moses Almosnino . While on a mission to Constantinople he met the noted grammarian Menahem Lonzano , who studied under him for some time and who therefore speaks of him as his teacher ( David Conforte , Kore ha-Dorot, ed. Among Samuel's many disciples who attained prominence were Abraham de Boton and Joseph ibn Ezra . He had a controversy with Joseph Karo and other rabbis at Safed , against whom he wrote a polemical letter ( Ketav Tochachah ; see Azulai , Shem haGedolim , s.v.). A grandson of his was Samuel Hayyun , author of Bene Shemuel , novellae and responsa (Salonica, c. 1613).

Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina (abbreviated RaShDaM , or Maharashdam ; 1505 – October 12, 1589), was a Talmudist and author from Thessaloniki . He was principal of the Talmudic college of that city, which produced a great number of prominent scholars during the 16th and 17th centuries. His teachers were the noted Talmudists Joseph Taitazak and Levi Ibn Chaviv , and among his schoolmates were Isaac Adarbi , Joseph ibn Leb , and Moses Almosnino . While on a mission to Constantinople he met the noted grammarian Menahem Lonzano , who studied under him for some time and who therefore speaks of him as his teacher ( David Conforte , Kore ha-Dorot, ed. Among Samuel's many disciples who attained prominence were Abraham de Boton , Joseph ibn Ezra and Ḥayyim Shabbethai . He had a controversy with Joseph Karo and other rabbis at Safed , against whom he wrote a polemical letter ( Ketav Tochachah ). A grandson of his was Samuel Hayyun , author of Bene Shemuel , novellae and responsa (Salonica, c. 1613).

Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina (abbreviated RaShDaM , Hebrew : רשד"ם or Maharashdam ; 1505 – October 12, 1589), was a Talmudist and author from Thessaloniki . He was principal of the Talmudic academy of that city, which produced a great number of prominent scholars during the 16th and 17th centuries. His teachers were the noted Talmudists Joseph Taitazak and Levi Ibn Chaviv , and among his schoolmates were Isaac Adarbi , Joseph ibn Leb , and Moses Almosnino . While on a mission to Constantinople he met the noted grammarian Menahem Lonzano , who studied under him for some time and who therefore speaks of him as his teacher. Among Samuel's many disciples who attained prominence were Abraham de Boton , Joseph ibn Ezra and Ḥayyim Shabbethai . He had a controversy with Joseph Karo and other rabbis at Safed , against whom he wrote a polemical letter ( Ketav Tochachah ). A grandson of his was Samuel Hayyun , author of Bene Shemuel , novellae and responsa (Salonica, c. 1613).