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a Jewish rabbi of the 16th century, belonged to those exiles who left Spain in 1492. Jaabez settled at Adrianople, where he became rabbi preacher. He wrote îàîø äàçãåú , or system of Jewish dogmatics (Ferrara, 1554): — äàîåðä éñéַã , or Dogmatics of Judaism, printed with the "system:" — àéø äçééí , or faith triumphant over philosophy (ibid. eod.; Amsterdam, 1781; Praemvsl, 1873): ôøåù òì úäìé , a commentary on the Psalms (Salonika, 1571). See De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), 132 sq.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:1; Jellinek, Joseph Jaabez, eine kurze Biographie in Literatur-Blatt des Orients, 1846, col. 261 sq. (B.P.)