Rabbi of Rhodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; probably born in Bulgaria. He emigrated to Palestine, but later removed to Rhodes. He was the author of "Yede Eliyahu," a work on the rabbinical institutions ("taḳḳanot"), in which the order adopted by Maimonides is followed (Constantinople, 1728).
Bibliography:
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim.
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The contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.
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