Acharonim1655–1733Fez; Meknes
Rabbi Yehuda ben Attar (the Minchat Yehuda)
Halakha, preaching and biblical commentary
- Minchat Yehuda
- Shir Michtam
- Preaching
- The community's ordinances
- Goldsmith
- Fez
- Meknes
- Moroccan Jewry
Halakha, preaching and biblical commentary
He saw that his students, great as they were in Torah, did not know how to preach, and taught them oratory and homiletics: Minchat Yehuda has its origin in Sabbath sermons at the afternoon service, after which another student preached. All his life he earned his living by the work of his hands, and he enacted ordinances for his community on taxes, trade and loans from gentiles.
Head of the rabbinical court and judge in Fez and Meknes in Morocco, a biblical commentator and one of the great rabbis of the country, born in Fez. He earned his living as a goldsmith by the work of his hands and did not want a salary from the public purse, studied under Rabbi Vidal HaTzarfati the Third and Rabbi Menachem Sirero, and in 1698 was appointed a judge in Fez. He wrote Minchat Yehuda, sermons on the Torah, and Shir Michtam on the laws of ritual slaughter, and died in 1733.
The archive doesn’t yet record Rabbi Yehuda ben Attar’s teachers, so the road to Sinai can’t be drawn yet.