Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ben Yiju
Description / Bio
"Moses b. Peraḥyā served as judge [muqaddam] in the Egyptian provincial towns of Minyat Ziftā and Minyat Ghamr; we possess documents and letters that he wrote in 1220-34, including some correspondence with Abraham Maimuni" (Goitein & Friedman, India Book, p. 84). Moshe guarded his role zealously; among these letters is one in which Maimonides instructs Moshe to keep his jealousy at bay after he attempted to interfere with a cousin taking on communal leadership duties in his demesne. Such intervention may have been a theme. Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī, maternal uncle of Moshe' daughter-in-law (also his niece), found it necessary to exhort Moshe to treat the girl well in the absence of her mother, now deceased (PGPID 1730). SBS.