Menahem Manesh Hayyut

Menahem Manesh (also spelled Manus, Manish, or Mannusch) ben Isaac Chajes (died 1636) was a Polish rabbi.[2]

Rabbi
Menahem Manesh Chajes
מנחם מאניש חיות
Personal
Diedc. May, 1636
Wilna
ReligionJudaism
Parent
  • Isaac ben Abraham Chajes (father)
Yahrtzeit8 Iyar, 5396[1]

He was the son of Rabbi Isaac ben Abraham Chajes, a descendant of a pious Provençal family; his father went to Prague in 1584.[3] It seems that in his younger days, about 1590, he was rabbi of Turobin.[2]

He is the first known rabbi of Wilna, and his tombstone is the oldest in the old Jewish cemetery of that city. The Jewish community of Wilna was established in the last decade of the sixteenth century, and as Abraham Samuel Bacharach of Worms (died 1615) congratulates Ḥayyut on his good position in a far-away place,[4] it is probable that Ḥayyut was really the first rabbi of Wilna.[2]

He is also mentioned in Ephraim Cohen's responsa "Sha'ar Efrayim,"[5] and in Moses Jekuthiel Kaufmann's "Leḥem ha-Panim" on Yoreh De'ah,[6] the first reference indicating Ḥayyut's proficiency in geometry.[2]

He died at Wilna about May, 1636.[2]

His grandson was Rabbi Isaac Chajes.[7]

Works

His only known published work is "Zemirot le-Shabbat," or "Ḳabbalat Shabbat," which appeared in Prague (according to Leopold Zunz,[8] in Lublin) in 1621, but of which only one copy[9] is known to exist.[2]

He was the author of an elegy on the conflagration of Posen and on the death of his brother Samuel,[10] which appeared in his father's "Pene Yiẓḥaḳ" (Hebrew: פני יצחק) (Kraków, 1591).[2]

The Bodleian Library contains a manuscript work of his, entitled "Derek Temimim" (Hebrew: דרך תמימים), which contains seven commentaries on the section Balaḳ of the Pentateuch and which is included in the Oppenheim collection ("Collectio Davidis," MS. No. 375, Hamburg, 1826).[2]

References
  1. תפארת בנים אבותם (in Hebrew). 1933. p. 6. Retrieved Jan 19, 2023.
  2.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Solomon Schechter and Peter Wiernik (1901–1906). "ḤAYYUT, MENAHEM (MANESH, MANUS, MANISH, MANNUSCH) B. ISAAC". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Its bibliography:
    • Fuenn, Ḳiryah Ne'emanah, pp. 63-66, Wilna, 1860;
    • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 321;
    • Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. pp. 363, 572;
    • Walden, Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash, p. 93, Warsaw, 1882.
  3. See Gans, "Ẓemaḥ Dawid," דשם.
  4. Abraham Samuel Bacharach (1679). סימן ל"א [No. 31]. Responsa, Ḥut ha-Shani שו"ת חוט השני (in Hebrew). Frankfurt. p. 36a. Retrieved Jan 19, 2023.
  5. Ephraim Cohen (1688). סימן כ"ט [No. 29]. Responsa, Sha'ar Efrayim שו"ת שער אפרים (in Hebrew). p. 17b. Retrieved Jan 19, 2023.
  6. Moses Jekuthiel Kaufmann (1726). Leḥem ha-Panim לחם הפנים (in Hebrew). Retrieved Jan 19, 2023.
  7. Public Domain Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "ḤAYYUT, ISAAC BEN JACOB". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  8. Zunz. Zur Geschichte und Literatur (in German). p. 303. Retrieved Jan 19, 2023.
  9. See Moritz Steinschneider, "Catalogus librorum hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana" No. 6348.
  10. Pene Yiẓḥaḳ פני יצחק (in Hebrew). Kraków. 1591. Retrieved Jan 19, 2023.
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