Aaron Hakohen Perahyah
{{Short description|17th-century Greek rabbi and writer}}
Aaron ben Hayyim Abraham Hakohen Perahyah ({{Langx|he|אהרן בן חיים אברהם הכהן פרחיה}}) was a rabbi and author who lived at Salonica in the seventeenth century. He was a pupil of Ḥasdai Peraḥyah ha-Kohen.
Works
Perahyah was the author of the following four works: (1) "Paraḥ Maṭṭeh Aharon" (Amsterdam, 1703),{{Cite book|author=Aaron Hakohen Perahyah|title=Paraḥ Maṭṭeh Aharon|script-title=he: פרח מטה אהרן|url=https://www.hebrewbooks.org/262|language=he|publication-place=Amsterdam|publication-date=1703|oclc=233322326|access-date=Feb 27, 2025}} responsa written between the years 1647 and 1695. (2) "Pirḥe Kehunnah" (ib. 1709),{{Cite book|author=Aaron Hakohen Perahyah|title=Pirḥe Kehunnah|script-title=he:פרחי כהונה|url=https://www.hebrewbooks.org/7388|language=he|publication-place=Amsterdam|publication-date=1709|oclc=233387135|access-date=Feb 27, 2025}} novellæ on certain Talmudic treatises. Both works were edited by his son Azriel, who wrote the introductions. The Amsterdam rabbis, among whom was Solomon Ayllon (compare Heinrich Graetz, "Geschichte der Juden" x., note 6),{{Cite book|author=Heinrich Graetz|author-link=Heinrich Graetz|chapter=Note 6|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/geschichtederjud10grae_0/page/481/mode/1up|title=Geschichte der Juden|trans-title=History of the Jews|language=de|volume=x|publication-place=Leipzig|publisher=Oskar Leiner|publication-date=1900|access-date=Mar 17, 2025}} gave their approbation to these works. (3) "Zikron Debarim" (Salonica, 1747),{{Cite book|author=Aaron Hakohen Perahyah|title=Zikron Debarim|script-title=he:זכרון דברים|url=https://www.hebrewbooks.org/7641|language=he|publication-place=Thessaloniki|publication-date=1753|oclc=233322329|access-date=Feb 27, 2025}} a collection of laws and shorter responsa, with an introduction by Samuel Florentin the Younger. (4) "Bigde Kehunnah" (ib. 1753),{{Cite book|author=Aaron Hakohen Perahyah|title=Bigde Kehunnah|script-title=he: בגדי כהונה|url=https://hebrewbooks.org/5737|language=he|publication-place=Thessaloniki|publication-date=1753|oclc=233174523|access-date=Feb 27, 2025}} homilies and funeral orations. The last two works were carried through the press by Samuel Mishan, a grandson of the author, in collaboration with Elijah Ḥakim (Leopold Zunz, "Gottesdienstliche Vorträge" ii. 445;{{Cite book|author=Leopold Zunz|author-link=Leopold Zunz|title=Gottesdienstliche Vorträge|url=https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/pageview/1336165|language=de|publication-place=Frankfurt a. M.|publisher=Verlag von J. Kauffmann|publication-date=1892|page=445|access-date=Mar 18, 2025}} Graetz, l.c.).{{JewishEncyclopedia|inline=1|article=PERAḤYAH, AARON B. ḤAYYIM (ABRAHAM) HA-KOHEN|author=Executive Committee of the Editorial Board and Lazarus Grünhut|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12016-perahyah-aaron-b-hayyim-abraham-ha-kohen}}
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Category:17th-century Greek writers
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