Isaac Hayyut Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Rabbi
Isaac Hayyut
Native-Name-Lang:he
Death Date:September 1726
Death Place:Skole
Father:Jacob

Isaac ben Jacob Ḥayyut (died 1726) was a Polish rabbi.

He was descended from an old Provençal family which first settled in Bohemia, and was the grandson of Rabbi Menahem Manesh Hayyut of Wilna.

He became rabbi of Skole, near Lviv, late in life, and remained there until his death.

He wrote thirteen works, which are enumerated in the preface to his "Zera' Yiẓḥaḳ" on the Mishnah, which was published by his son Eliezer (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1732).[1] His "Iggeret Ḳeẓ Ḥai" (Hebrew:),[2] describing in a kabbalistic manner "terrible things which he had seen in the upper world," was published in Chernivtsi in 1862.

He died at Skole in September, 1726.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Isaac Hayyut. Zera' Yiẓḥaḳ. he:זרע יצחק. he. Frankfort-on-the-Oder. 1732. Jan 18, 2023.
  2. Book: Isaac Hayyut. Iggeret Ḳeẓ Ḥai. he:אגרת קץ חי. he. Drohobycz. Druck von A. H. Żupnik. 1886. Jan 18, 2023.
  3. Its bibliography:
    • Fuenn, Ḳiryah Ne'emanah, p. 64, Wilna, 1860;
    • idem, Keneset Yisrael, p. 612, Warsaw, 1886;
    • Zedner, p. 184, Chayuth, Isaac ben Jacob;
    • Buber, Anshe Shem, pp. 118-119, Cracow, 1895.