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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ABOAB
		He was the pupil and successor of Isaac Campanton, and was called "the last gaon of Castile." After Ferdinand and Isabella issued the decree of expulsion in 1492, he with thirty others of the most respected Jews of the land went to Lisbon in order to negotiate with King John II.
		Rabbi at Venice; was the son and successor of Samuel Aboab.
		The latter confessed to Aboab, as president of the rabbinical tribunal (bet din) of Venice, that his (Nathan of Gaza's) prophecies concerning the Messianic character of Shabbethai Ẓebi were mere deceptions.
	jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=344&letter=A&search=aboab (2827 words)

	Isaac Aboab da Fonseca at AllExperts
		Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was born in the Portuguese town of Castro d'Ayre as Simao da Fonseca, a Christian name.
		In 1642, Aboab da Fonseca was appointed rabbi at the Dutch colony of Pernambuco (Recife), Brazil.
		During the reign of Aboab da Fonseca, the community flourished; the Portuguese synagogue (the Esnoga) was inaugurated in August 2th 1675 (10 Menachem 5435).
	en.allexperts.com /e/i/is/isaac_aboab_da_fonseca.htm (463 words)

	The Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, Recife, Brazil
		Rabbi Aboab da Fonseca was born in Portugal in 1605 into a family of New Christians.
		Tombstone of the grave of Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and his wife Esther at the Jewish cemetery in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, The Netherlands.
		The bereavement of their spiritual guide was so keenly felt by Amsterdam Jewry that for many years the name of Rabbi Aboab and the date of his death were incorporated in the engraved border of all marriage contracts issued by the community.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Synagogue/Recife.asp (514 words)

	Isaac da Fonseca Aboab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac da Fonseca Aboab' was Jewish Talmudic scholar.
		He was a man of affairs, who, toward the close of his life, devoted much time to literary work and to preaching, as he found, he complained, that great Talmudic scholars and important seats of learning were rare.
		Its skillfull arrangement of the various Biblical and rabbinical topics and its warm tone of deep earnestness and sincerity could notfail to appeal to the popular heart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_da_Fonseca_Aboab (735 words)

	The Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, Recife, Brazil
		Rabbi Aboab da Fonseca was born in Portugal in 1605 into a family of New Christians.
		Tombstone of the grave of Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and his wife Esther at the Jewish cemetery in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, The Netherlands.
		The bereavement of their spiritual guide was so keenly felt by Amsterdam Jewry that for many years the name of Rabbi Aboab and the date of his death were incorporated in the engraved border of all marriage contracts issued by the community.
	bh.org.il /Communities/Synagogue/Recife.asp (514 words)

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		Isaac the elder's descendant, Rabbi Isaac Aboab the younger, was later famous as a rabbi and Bible commentator in Castile, Spain.
		Isaac was an outstanding student, and became an assistant to the Rabbi of the large Sephardic congregation in Amsterdam.
		Aboab da Fonseca's sermons were so moving that he is credited with inspiring the building of the magnificent Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam.
	www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/010/bresil.html (3483 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - BIBLE TRANSLATIONS:
		(Chages?), Isaac Cohen, and Isaac ben Samuel Cohen of Jerusalem.
		These editions of Cracow came from the press of Isaac ben Aaron Prossnitz, whose intention it was to publish the whole Bible in Judæo-German in order that "women and children might be able to read without the help of a teacher" (Perles, in "Monatsschrift," xxv.
		Isaac Euchel translated Proverbs (Berlin, 1790; Dessau, 1804), introducing, however, philosophical expressions into the text, thereby often clouding the meaning.
	jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1035&letter=B (10343 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - AGUILAR (AGUYLAR), MOSES RAPHAELDE
		In 1642 he went with Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, as ḥazan, to Brazil, where he remained till the reconquest of that country by the Portuguese, when he returned to Amsterdam and was reappointed to his former position.
		He published "Epitome da Grammatica Hebrayca" (Leyden, 1660), a second edition of which appeared at Amsterdam in 1661, under the title "Compendio da Epitome Grammatica," with a treatise on Hebrew poetry.
		It is said that he left about twenty Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew works in manuscript, "Tratado da Immortalidade da Alma" (manuscript of twenty pages quarto) being among them.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=925&letter=A (216 words)

	The New Encyclopedia Of Judaism
		A quick turn of the page brings us to Isaac Aboab, the 14th century Spanish Talmudist whose Menorat ha-Ma'or (Candlestick of Light) is a classic of mussar literature, presenting the moral and religious truths of Judaism in a popular form through excerpts of beautiful rabbinic sayings and maxims.
		His descendant, we learn, was Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605-1693), the Hakham of Pernambuco, (Dutch) Brazil, and the New World's first rabbi.
		A work of vast but unassuming erudition, The New Encyclopedia of Judaism is balanced, fluent and laconic.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/14226/The_New_Encyclopedia_Of_Judaism.html (550 words)

	Sabbatai Zevi article - Sabbatai Zevi July 23 1626 September 30 1676 claimed Messiah Kabbalist Judaism - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		He found the practical Kabbalah, with its asceticism, and its mortification of the body — whereby its devotees claimed to be able to communicate with God and the angels, to predict the future, and to perform all sorts of miracles — especially appealing.
		Among the first of these to whom he revealed his Messiahship in the foregoing manner were Isaac Silveyra and Moses Pinheiro, the latter a brother-in-law of the Italian rabbi and cabalist Joseph Ergas.
		Should the news be confirmed, it may bring about a revolution in all things." Even Spinoza himself entertained the possibility that with this favorable opportunity the Jews might reestablish their kingdom and again be the chosen of God.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Sabbatai_Zevi (3687 words)

	Prof Asa Kasher
		Hakham Aboab, in his book Nishmat Hayyim,(21) clearly supports the citations he incorporated from Pardes Rimmonim, written by Kabbalist Moses Cordovero: "...Though they are not called "koferim" or "minim" [heretics], since they believe in all matters of divinity, nonetheless they are called "koferim" because they deny the oral interpretation of the Law...
		According to Aboab, punishment is not eternal but "as temporary as the gravity of sin."(27) He dismisses Morteira's view as a "castle in the air",(28)since it contradicts everything implied in the writings of the Kabbalists.
		Aboab unleashes his tongue on Morteira and his followers, whom he critically portrays as follows: "Older than I am; whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock; and they are exceedingly wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight.
	www.tau.ac.il /~kasher/pspin.htm (13487 words)

	Bible Translations - BibleWiki
		These editions of Cracow came from the press of Isaac ben Aaron Prossnitz, whose intention it was to publish the whole Bible in Judæo-German in order that "women and children might be able to read without the help of a teacher" (Perles, in "Monatsschrift," xxv.
		Isaac Euchel translated Proverbs (Berlin, 1790; Dessau, 1804), introducing, however, philosophical expressions into the text, thereby often clouding the meaning.
		Isaac Leeser attempted to rectify this and at the same time so to translatethe Bible as to make it represent the best results of modern study.
	bible.tmtm.com /wiki/Authorized_Version (10523 words)

	Sabbatai Zevi
		He found the practical Kabbalah, with its asceticism, and its mortification of the body — whereby its devotees claimed to be able to communicate with God and the angels, to predict the future, and to perform all sorts of miracles — especially appealing.
		Among the first of these to whom he revealed his Messiahship in the foregoing manner were Isaac Silveyra and Moses Pinheiro, the latter a brother-in-law of the Italian rabbi and cabalist Joseph Ergas.
		Should the news be confirmed, it may bring about a revolution in all things." Even Spinoza himself entertained the possibility that with this favorable opportunity the Jews might reestablish their kingdom and again be the chosen of God.
	www.muestrario.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sa/sabbatai_zevi.html (3664 words)

	Brazilian Jewry -- A concise history
		Da Gama was successful in reaching the Cape of Good Hope, where he turned northward into the Indian Ocean and reached Madagascar, Ceylon, and India.
		Da Gama's reaction was to assume that this man was a spy, and the Portuguese proceed to torture him.
		Da Silva had written a number of successful plays and was on his way to becoming a major Brazilian playwriter when he was denounced to the Inquisition as someone who still practiced the Jewish faith.
	www.solargeneral.com /ja/slavery/historyofjewsinbrazil.htm (5449 words)

	Early Relations between the Jewish Communities in the Caribbean and the Guianas and Those of the Near East 17th to 19th ...
		Aboab was born in 1605 in Castro Daire, Portugal, into a converso family which fled to St. Jean de Luz in France; Aboab had his Jewish upbringing in Amsterdam.
		These discussions continued during the tenure of the Haham Lopez da Fonseca (served 1764—1815), the son-in-law of Haham de Sola, and resulted in an open clash with the arrival of Cantor Piza in 1816.
		Piza, a descendant of a very prestigious family of Istanbul Hahams, was invited to Curaçao to serve as a cantor and to eventually become the Chief Haham.7 Born and educated in Amsterdam, he was already influenced by the customs and usages of modern European Sephardi Jews.
	www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/038/4.html (3114 words)

	Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana acquires two extraordinary hebrew grammars - Special collections
		The grammars were written by Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) and Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605-1693).
		The manuscript was most probably copied between 1655 and 1660 or a few years later, during the lifetime of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, the first rabbi in the New World, and possibly also during the lifetime of Menasseh ben Israel.
		The manuscript is therefore the first known manuscript copy of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca's unpublished Hebrew grammar, which is the first Hebrew text written in the New World, together with the second known copy of Menasseh ben Israel's unpublished Hebrew grammar in a more definitive version.
	www.uba.uva.nl /special_collections/object.cfm/objectid=738F237C-552F-4F90-B36FB9F28BA56784 (159 words)

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		Da Costa : (also see Acosta, Costa) Sephardic family probably identical with the family of Mendes da Costa (Mendes of the coast) The family is a central key to Sephardic family trees because of its wide connections to Marrano families.
		The US branch is descended from Solomon Solis and his wife, born Isabel da Fonseca, who moved to Amsterdam from Spain in the 17th cent.
		According to UJ, Isaac Albalia (1035-1094) was an ancestor of Abraham ibn Daud.
	andreverissimo.blogspot.com /2004_10_31_andreverissimo_archive.html (2591 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Brazil
		Gaspar da Gama, a Jew by birth, but later kidnaped and forcibly baptized, accompanied Portuguese admiral Pedro Alvares Cabral when he landed in what is now Brazil in 1500, beginning a more than 500-year presence in the New World.
		In 1642, Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a well-known Amsterdam rabbi and scholar Moses Raphael d'Aguilar came to Brazil as spiritual leaders to assist the congregations of Kahal Zur in Recife and Magen Abraham in Mauricia.
		In 1647, the Portuguese authorities arrested Isaac de Castro for teaching Jewish rites and customs in Portuguese controlled Brazil and sent him back to Portugal where the Inquisition sentenced him to death and burned him at the stake.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Brazil.html (2177 words)

	Glimpses Into American Jewish History (Part 3)
		After the repulse of the Portuguese attack on the city in 1646, (Rabbi) Aboab composed a thanksgiving narrative hymn...
		Held in high esteem by his former Amsterdam congregants, (Rabbi) Aboab was reappointed as hocham in the synagogue and made teacher in the city`s talmud torah, principal of its yeshiva and member of the city`s bet din, or rabbinic court.
		The bereavement of their spiritual guide was so keenly felt by Amsterdam Jewry that for many years the name of Rabbi Aboab and the date of his death were incorporated in the engraved border of all marriage contracts issued by the community.[4]*
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/19153/Glimpses_Into_American_Jewish_History_(Part_3).html (1478 words)

	Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue \| Go to Shul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		This appears to have been the case with Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, rabbi of Amsterdam and the first rabbi in the American continent.
		Aboab, Arabic for a stringed musical instrument, presumably related to an original Jewish surname.
		Fonseca, meaning 'dry fountain' in Portuguese, related to the time they had spent as outwardly Christian.
	www.hgss.org.uk /home/5765/Balak.shtm (1388 words)

	Paul Sebag: Les Noms des Juifs de Tunisie (Appendix "Les noms des Livournais")
		Isaac being traditionally "the son of joy", there is no contradiction with the suggested etymology unless it were that the surname refers to the biblical first name and not to its etymology.
		Isaac Aboab ( os Abuefes as David Franco Mendes, 18th century Amsterdam historian of the Portuguese, called them in plural) was in the 15th century the last sage of Castile or Gaon.
		In fact Immanuel Aboab de Fonseca, on interrogating one of his cousins from Leghorn about the homonyms of that city, was told by him that os Athias de aquì were related to the Fonseca.
	www.orthohelp.com /geneal/levyseba.HTM (9287 words)

	Mavi Boncuk: 1666 The Sabbatean movement in Amsterdam
		Some of these books also contain prayers, confessions, and hymns written by Chaham R. Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and the poet R. Solomon de Oliveyra, who was later appointed rabbi of the Sephardi community.
		In the summer of 1666 official letters were written to Sabbatai Sevi from the various yeshivot of the Sephardi Jews of Amsterdam.
		The letter from the Torah Or (Torah Light) yeshiva, signed by Rabbi Isaac Aboab, has not been preserved.
	maviboncuk.blogspot.com /2004/09/1666-sabbatean-movement-in-amsterdam.html (1036 words)

	National Foundation for Jewish Culture
		The holograph manuscript, inscribed by the author, Haham Isaac Aboab Da Fonseca, is in the Etz Hayim Library in Amsterdam.
		Born to a Marrano family in Portugal in 1605, the Aboab family escaped to Amsterdam where their precocious son, at age 21, was appointed Haham of Congregation Beth Israel.
		Aboab’s little volume has a much better chance of notice and listing in general Hebrew bibliography.
	www2.jewishculture.org /jewish_scholarship/jewish_scholarship_feinstein_karp.html (4765 words)

	HADASSAH MAGAZINE
		The center of Olinda is perched on a hill, which affords magnificent views of the fig and palm trees that surround the tile rooftops, and of the ocean and Recife in the distance.
		The main street of Olinda is Rua Bispo Coutinho, and its most prominent landmark is the Igreja da Miseracórdia, which is likely where the Inquisition was seated in the 1590’s.
		In addition to its clandestine synagogue, the house was also where Dias conducted the first school in Brazil, in which she taught sewing, embroidery and cooking to young girls.
	www.hadassah.org /news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2001/may01/traveler.htm (2399 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Sabbatai Zevi
		He found the practical Kabbalah, with its asceticism, and its mortification of the body – through which its devotees claimed to be able to communicate with God and the angels, to predict the future, and to perform all sorts of miracles – especially appealing.
		Among the first of those to whom he revealed his Messiahship were Isaac Silveyra and Moses Pinheiro, the latter a brother-in-law of the Italian rabbi and kabbalist Joseph Ergas.
		Among the many prominent rabbis of that time who were followers of Sabbatai were: Isaac da Fonseca Aboab, Moses Raphael de Aguilar, Moses Galante, Moses Zacuto, and the above-mentioned Hayyim Benveniste.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Shabbethai_Tevi (3776 words)

	17th century conversos in Amsterdam
		However, Halevi was released and allowed to continue working with the Iberian ex-Conversos, who were able to establish their own rituals by 1603.
		One of the early Conversos who arrived in Holland was Isaac Pinto who was more than glad for having been given the opportunity to practice Judaism, the religion of his Iberian ancestors.
		In conclusion, the Amsterdam ex-Converso community gained knowledge of rabbinic Judaism rapidly and by the 1630s they had produced their own rabbis and scholars, such as Menasseh ben Israel and Isaac Aboab da Fonseca.
	www.kulanu.org /netherlands/amsterdam.html (1201 words)

	National Foundation for Jewish Culture
		The holograph manuscript, inscribed by the author, Haham Isaac Aboab Da Fonseca, is in the Etz Hayim Library in Amsterdam.
		Born to a Marrano family in Portugal in 1605, the Aboab family escaped to Amsterdam where their precocious son, at age 21, was appointed Haham of Congregation Beth Israel.
		Aboab’s little volume has a much better chance of notice and listing in general Hebrew bibliography.
	www.jewishculture.org /jewish_scholarship/jewish_scholarship_feinstein_karp.html (4808 words)

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