Isaac Aboab da Fonseca

Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
	Portrait of Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca. This work is a translation of the Pentateuch into Spanish, with a commentary by Rabbi Fonseca. It was prepared for Jews in Dutch Brazil, who because of their Iberian heritage would be able to read Portuguese.
Personal
Born	Simão da Fonseca; February 1, 1605; Castro Daire, Portugal
Died	April 4, 1693 (aged 88); Amsterdam, Netherlands
Religion	Judaism
Children	Judth Aboab da Fonseca and Rabbi David Aboab da Fonseca
Parents	David Aboab (father); Isabel da Fonseca (mother);
Position	Rabbi
Synagogue	Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue
Began	1642
Ended	1654
Dynasty	Aboab

Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (or Isaak Aboab Foonseca) (February 1, 1605 – April 4, 1693) was a rabbi, scholar, kabbalist, and religious writer. In 1656, he was one of several elders within the Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam and for a time in Dutch Brazil before the Portuguese reconquest.^[1] He was one of the religious leaders who excommunicated philosopher Baruch Spinoza in 1656.

^ Bodian, Miriam. Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1997, 163

[1] Bodian, Miriam. Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1997, 163

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