AZULAI — AZULAI, family of scholars and kabbalists of Castilian origin which settled in Fez, Hebron, and Jerusalem after the expulsion from Spain. abraham ben mordecai azulai (1570–1643), the kabbalist, is the first of the family whose works are known.… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
AZULAI — AZULAI, Italian family of makers of majolica; active from the early 16th to the early 18th centuries. The Azulais were of Spanish origin. Together with the cohen family, the Azulai family was noteworthy for having produced most of the majolica… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
AZULAI, ḤAYYIM JOSEPH DAVID — (known by his Hebrew acronym Ḥida, Ḥayyim Yoseph David Azulai; 1724–1806), halakhist, kabbalist, emissary, and bibliographer. Azulai was born in Jerusalem; he was descended on his father s side from a prominent family of rabbis and kabbalists… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
AZULAI, ABRAHAM BEN ISRAEL — (c. 1660–c. 1741), kabbalist. Azulai was born in Marrakesh. He was related to R. abraham b. mordecai azulai , and was the disciple of R. Isaac de Levayah and a friend of R. Solomon Amar II and R. Abraham ibn Musa. He lived for some time in Tetuan … Encyclopedia of Judaism
AZULAI, ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI — (c. 1570–1643), kabbalist. Azulai, who was born in Fez, first mastered the study of the Talmud and philosophic literature and then Kabbalah. He did not agree with the interpretations of the Zohar which his teachers provided, and he did not really … Encyclopedia of Judaism
AZULAI, MASʿUD — (17th century), kabbalist and rabbi; also called Masʿūd Ma aravi ( the Westerner ) and Masʿūd Saggi Nahor (euphemism for the blind ). Azulai, who went from Safed to Morocco, was a kabbalist ascetic and in 1601 he became a member of the Beit ha Va … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Azulai, Abraham — (1570 1643) North African kabbalist. Born in Fez, he emigrated to Hebron. He wrote three treatises on the Zohar and a kabbalistic work, Hessed le Avraham … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David — (1724 1806) Palestinian emissary and writer. He was born in Jerusalem. He came to be regarded as the leading scholar of his generation, and also travelled abroad as an emissary of the Jewish community in Israel. His Maagal Tov is a literary… … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
Chaim Joseph David Azulai — The Chida Chaim Joseph David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia (1724 – 1 March 1806) (Hebrew: חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי), commonly known as the Chida (by the acronym of his name, חיד א), was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a… … Wikipedia
David Azulai — Date of birth 5 May 1954 (1954 05 05) (age 57) Place of birth Meknes, Morocco Year of … Wikipedia