Ḥayyim Ha-Kohen:

By: Gotthard Deutsch , S. Mannheimer

German rabbi; born at Prague at the end of the sixteenth century; died at Posen about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the son of Isaac ben Samson ha-Kohen, and, on his mother's side, a grandson of the renowned Löw ben Bezaleel, rabbi of Prague. His brother Naphtali was rabbi at Lublin, and his sister was Eva Bacharach . From 1628 to 1630 he was rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main. The earliest proof of his activity there is a regulation regarding the election of representatives of the congregation. In another document he limits the lectures of learned members of the congregation to the hours from 2 to 4 o'clock on Sabbath afternoon, while he reserves the morning hours of the Sabbath to himself. Among his hearers was Joseph Hahn , who speaks highly of him in his "Yosif Omeẓ" (§§ 520, 529, 729). In 1630 he accepted a call to Posen, where also he was held in high esteem (preface to "Ḥawwot Yair"). In David Oppenheimer's collection is a manuscript written by Ḥayyim's nephew and disciple,Samson Bacharach, which contains Ḥayyim's novellæ and explanations to the four codes of the Shulḥan 'Aruk.