Solomon Ayllon

Haham Solomon Jacob Ayllon
Personal
Bornbetween 1655 and 1665
Died(1728-04-10)10 April 1728
ReligionJudaism

Solomon Ayllon (ca. 1655[1] or ca. 1660 – 10 April 1728) was Haham of the Sephardic congregations in London and Amsterdam, and a follower of Shabbethai Ẓebi. His name is derived from the town of Ayllon, in what is now the province of Segovia.

Ayllon was neither a general scholar nor a Talmudist of standing,[2] but his history is closely interwoven with that of Sabbateanism (Sabbatai Zevi, Nathan of Gaza and Nehemiah Hayyun) in both the East and the West.[3]

  1. ^ Jews, Christians and Conversos: Rabbi Solomon Aailion's Struggles in the Portuguese Community of London by MATT GOLDISH
  2. ^ As his responsa (found in Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen's "Keneset Yeḥezkel," Nos. 3, 5; in Samuel Aboab's "Debar Shemuel," Nos. 320, 324; in Ẓebi Ashkenazi's "Ḥakam Ẓebi," No. 1; in Jacob Sasportas's "Ohel Ya'aḳob," No. 64) amply show. See also the anonymous letter quoted by Grätz, "Geschichte," x. 482 (3d ed.).
  3. ^ Matt Goldish, “Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the 1689 London Sermons of Hakham Solomon Aailion,” in Chanita Goodblatt and Haim Kreisel, eds., Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period (Be’er Sheva: Ben-Gurion, 2007), 139-165