Background
He was born (H Graetz cites 1030) and lived in the town of Lucena, where he also headed a rabbinic academy.
He was born (H Graetz cites 1030) and lived in the town of Lucena, where he also headed a rabbinic academy.
He died in Cordoba. He was the author of a compendium of ritual laws concerning the festivals, published by Bamberger under the title of Sha"are Simḥah (Fürth, 1862. The laws concerning the Passover were republished by Zamber under the title Hilkot Pesaḥim, Berlin, 1864), and a philosophical commentary on Ecclesiastes, known only through quotations in the works of later authors (Dukes, in Orient, Literature x 667-668). The greatest activity of Ibn Ghayyat was in liturgical poetry.
He was an author of hundreds of piyyutim, and his hymns are found in the Maḥzor of Tripoli under the title of Sifte Renanot. des Judicial
1839, p. L.