Joseph Shalit ben Eliezer Riqueti (Richetti) was a

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scholar born at

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, and who lived in the second half of the 17th century at

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, where he directed a

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school. He was the author of ''Ḥokmat ha-Mishkan'' or ''Iggeret Meleket ha-Mishkan'' (

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, 1676), on the construction of the

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. He also published a map of

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which

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supposes to have been prepared as one of the illustrations of a

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. Besides his own works Joseph edited ''Ḥibbur Ma'asiyyot'' (Venice, 1646), a collection of moral tales, and Gershon ben Asher's ''Yiḥus ha-Ẓaddiḳim,'' to which he added notes of his own (Mantua, 1676). He is possibly the earliest author to mention the ''

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'', although it is not clear whether he was referring to the Yemenite work currently known by that title.

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, ''Toledot Gedole Yisrael'', p. 213; *

, in Asher's edition of Benjamin of Tudela's Massa'ot, ii. 286; *

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, Cat. Bodl. col. 1526; *

Marco Mortara Marco Mortara (born at Viadana, 7 May 1815; died at Mantua, 2 February 1894) was an Italian rabbi and scholar. Having graduated from the rabbinical college of Padua in 1836, he was called as rabbi to Mantua in 1842, and occupied this position unt ...

, ''Indice'', p. 54.

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