Background
Ḥagiz"s teacher was David Karigal (Ḳorban Minḥah, Number 105), who afterward became his father-in-law.
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Jakob Hagiz
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About 1646 Ḥagiz went to Italy for the purpose of publishing his books, and remained there until after 1656, supporting himself by teaching. Samuel di Pam, rabbi at Livorno, calls himself a pupil of Ḥagiz. Jacob Ḥagiz was active in the opposition to Shabbethai Ẓebi and put him under the ban (Grätz, lc x 475, note 3).
This book, as well as many others of his, was lost (Moses Ḥagiz, in the introduction to Halakot Ḳeṭannot).
He also wrote: Teḥillat Ḥokhmah, on Talmudic methodology, published together with Samson of Chinon"s Sefer Keritot (Verona, 1647): Amsterdam 1709 edition here, Warsaw 1884 edition (without Sefer Keritot) here Oraḥ Mishor, on the conduct of rabbis (an appendix to the preceding work. 2d ed, with additions by Moses Ḥagiz, Amsterdam, 1709) Petil Tekhelet, on the Azharot of Solomon Gabirol (Venice, 1652.
2d ed, London, 1714) Eẓ ha-Ḥayyim, on the Mishnah (Leghorn, 1654-1655. 2d ed, Berlin, 1716) Ḥagiz also translated the Menorat ha-Ma"or of Isaac Aboab into Spanish (1656).
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About 1657 Ḥagiz left Livorno for Jerusalem, where the Vega brothers of Leghorn had founded a bet ha-midrash for him (Grätz, Gesch x 212), and where he became a member of the rabbinical college (Moses ibn Ḥabib, Geṭ Pashuṭ, p 129).
