Elijah Spira (1660–1712) (alternatively, "Shapira" or "Shapiro",
Hebrew
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: אליהו שפירא) was son of
Benjamin Wolf Spira. He was a brother-in-law of Rabbi
Yaakov Reischer, Rabbi
David Oppenheim and a student of Rabbi
Avraham Gombiner
Abraham Abele Gombiner () ( – 5 October 1682), known as the Magen Avraham, born in Gąbin (Gombin), Poland, was a rabbi, Talmudist and a leading religious authority in the Jewish community of Kalisz, Poland, during the seventeenth century. Hi ...
.
He was
rabbi
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at
Tiktin, and afterward
preacher
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and director of a large
Talmudic academy in his hometown of
Prague
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. He died at Prague April 14, 1712.
His works include ''Eliyahu Zutta'', a commentary on that part of
Mordecai Yoffe
Mordecai ben Avraham Yoffe (or Jaffe or Joffe) ( 1530 – 7 March 1612; Hebrew: מרדכי בן אברהם יפה) was a Rabbi, Rosh yeshiva and posek. He is best known as author of ''Levush Malkhus'', a ten-volume codification of Jewish law th ...
's ''Levush'' relating to the ''
Shulhan Arukh
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'', ''
Orach Chaim
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'' (Prague, 1689, 1701).
His best-known work was
Eliyahu Rabbah' (Sulzbach, 1757), containing discussions on ''Orach Chaim''. It was printed
posthumous
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ly by his son, whose name is not given. Originally intended as a commentary on the ''Levush'' (like Eliyahu Zutta), it was printed as commentary on the Shulchan Aruch and became known as such.
''Shishah Shittot,'' containing