Raphael Jacob Manasseh (; 1762 – 21 April 1832) was an Ottoman rabbinical writer and

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. Among his works are ''Ohel Ya'aḳob'' (Salonica, 1832), an alphabetical collection of the laws of religion; ''Be'er ha-Mayim'' (Salonica, 1836), responsa; and ''En ha-Mayim'' (printed in 1858), a commentary on the ''

Shulchan Aruch The ''Shulhan Arukh'' ( ),, often called "the Code of Jewish Law", is the most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Rabbinic Judaism. It was authored in the city of Safed in what is now Israel by Joseph Karo in 1563 and published in ...

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Yoreh De'ah ''Yoreh De'ah'' () is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), the ''Arba'ah Turim'', written around 1300. This section treats all aspects of Jewish law not pertinent to the Hebrew calendar, finance, torts, marr ...

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1762 births 1832 deaths 18th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire 19th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Rabbis from Thessaloniki Writers from Thessaloniki {{Judaism-bio-stub