ELIJAH BEN RAPHAEL SOLOMON HA-LEVI
- ELIJAH BEN RAPHAEL SOLOMON HA-LEVI
- ELIJAH BEN RAPHAEL SOLOMON HA-LEVI (end of 18th
and beginning of 19th century), Italian rabbi, author,
kabbalist, and liturgical poet. Elijah was both a pupil and a colleague
of isaac lampronti together with whom he studied under
judah briel in Mantua. He was at first rabbi of Finale and later
worked in Alessandria. He composed a number of marriage poems and other
occasional poems as well as a large work, Seder de-Eliyahu
(Mantua, 1786). The names of all his books are connected with the name
Elijah, such as Sava Eliyahu and Eliyahu be-Arba.
His responsa are to be found in the Shemesh Ẓedakah of Samson
Morpurgo, in the Paḥad Yizḥak of Isaac Lampronti, and in the
Givat Pinḥas (unpublished) of Phinehas Anau. A number of
talmudic and kabbalistic works, responsa, and homilies by Elijah
remained unpublished. Isaac Raphael Finzi composed an elegy on his
death.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fuenn, Keneset, 117; Ghirondi-Neppi, 13f.
(Samuel Abba Horodezky)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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