Education
While on a mission to Constantinople he met the noted grammarian Menahem Lonzano, who studied under him for some time and who therefore speaks of him as his teacher (David Conforte, Kore ha-Dorot, ed Cassel, p 44a).
While on a mission to Constantinople he met the noted grammarian Menahem Lonzano, who studied under him for some time and who therefore speaks of him as his teacher (David Conforte, Kore ha-Dorot, ed Cassel, p 44a).
He was principal of the Talmudic college of that city, which produced a great number of prominent scholars during the 16th and 17th centuries. He had a controversy with Joseph Karo and other rabbis at Safed, against whom he wrote a polemical letter (Ketav Tochachah. See Azulai, Shem haGedolim, sv).
He died at Salonica.
A grandson of his was Samuel Hayyun, author of Bene Shemuel, novellae and responsa (Salonica, c 1613).