Ḥayyim Alfandari (the Younger)
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Hayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari (; 1660–1733) was
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in
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during the latter half of the 17th and in the beginning of the 18th century. In his old age he went to
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, where he died. He was the author of ''Esh Dat'' (A Fiery Law), a collection of
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printed together with his uncle's ''Muẓẓal me-Esh'' (Hebrew: ) in Constantinople, 1718. Several short treatises by him are published in the works of others. Azulai speaks very highly of him as a scholar and as a
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.
''Jewish Encyclopedia'' bibliography: * Michael, Heimann Joseph, (1891) ''Or ha-Ḥayyim'', Frankfort-on-the-Main (in Hebrew), No. 854; *
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, ''Cat. Bodl.'' col. 821.
He is a member of the notable
Alfandari Alfandari was a family of eastern rabbis prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries, found in Smyrna, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. The name may be derived from a Spanish locality, perhaps from Alfambra. The following is a list of the chief membe ...
family.


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Hayyim ben Menahem Algazi Hayyim ben Menahem Algazi () was the rabbi of the island of Rhodes and Smyrna and author of "''Bene Ḥayyai''". He lived in the seventeenth century. ''Bene Ḥayyai'' Algazi authored "''Bene Ḥayyai''" (Sons of My Life), containing notes and ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alfandari, Hayyim (The Younger) Rabbis from Istanbul Sephardi rabbis from Ottoman Palestine 17th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire 18th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire 1660 births 1733 deaths Maggidim