Rabbi of Venice; flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Joseph Escapa and wrote a preface to, and edited the second part of, the latter's "Rosh Yosef" (Smyrna, 1659). He also edited: Solomon Algazi's "Me'ullefet Sappirim," to which he wrote a preface (ib. 1665); R. Jacob Berab's responsa (Venice, 1663, with many of his own); and "Meḳor Baruk," the responsa of Baruch Kalai (Smyrna, 1660).
Bibliography:
- Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. , No. 1079;
- , No. 1064;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 1:258;
- Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. pp. 307, 727.
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