Russian rabbi in Brest-Litovsk in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote: "She'erit Ya'aḳob," containing ḥiddushim on the Pentateuch, on the Five Megillot, and on some Talmudic haggadot (Altona, 1727). See BREST-LITOVSK.
Bibliography:
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 562;
- Feinstein, 'Ir Tehillah, pp. 32, 37, Warsaw, 1886;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 2:19;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1223.
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