page_title: Acharonim
section_title: 17th Century
hierarchical_section_title: Acharonim / Some Acharonim / 17th Century
caption_attribution_description: English: Exact words from the site: "This work is a translation of the Pentateuch into Spanish, with a commentary by Isaac Aboab de Fonseca. It was prepared for Jews in Dutch Brazil, who because of their Iberian heritage would be able to read Spanish. The portrait is of the commentator, Aboab de Fonseca, who was not only the first rabbi in Brazil but also the first rabbi to come to America."
context_page_description: Acharonim in Jewish law and history, are the leading rabbis and poskim living from roughly the 16th century to the present, and more specifically since the writing of the Shulchan Aruch in 1563 CE.
  The Acharonim follow the Rishonim, the "first ones"—the rabbinic scholars between the 11th and the 16th century following the Geonim and preceding the Shulchan Aruch. The publication of the Shulchan Aruch thus marks the transition from the era of Rishonim to that of Acharonim.
context_section_description: Samuel Eidels ("Maharsha") (1555–1631), Talmudist famous for his commentary on the Talmud
  Ḥayyim Shabbethai ("Maharhash") (1557 - 1643), Chief Rabbi of Thessaloniki, famous for his responsas.
  Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), Portuguese/Dutch Kabbalist, diplomat and publisher
  Moses Raphael de Aguilar ( 1611- 1679), Dutch Talmudist and Hebrew grammatician.
  Moses ben Isaac Judah Lima (Chelkath Mechokeik; c. 1615 – c. 1670)
  Shabbatai HaKohen (1621–1662; Siftei Kohen)
  David HaLevi Segal (Turei Zahav) (c. 1586–1667), Halakhist, major commentator on the Shulkhan Aruch
  Avraham Gombiner (Magen Avraham; c. 1635 – 1682)
  Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (Bet Hillel) (1615–1690), Lithuanian scholar
  Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605–1693), Portuguese/Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first Rabbi in the Americas
  Hezekiah da Silva (1659–1698; Peri Chodosh)
  Yair Bacharach (Havvot Yair) (1639–1702), German Talmudist
  Isaac Abendana (c. 1640–1710), Sephardic scholar in England
  Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus (Beit Shmuel)
caption: Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
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