Elijah Alfandari (
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
: אליהו אלפנדארי) was a writer on matrimonial law, and
rabbi
A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as ''semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of ...
at
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
in the latter half of the 18th and in the beginning of the 19th century. He published two works on matrimonial law, ''Seder Eliyahu Rabbah we-Zuṭṭa'' (The Great and Small Order of Elijah), Constantinople, 1719, and ''Miktav me-Eliyahu'' (A Letter from Elijah), Constantinople, 1723. His cousin,
Ḥayyim Alfandari (the Younger), in a question of law which he submitted to him, refers to him as a great authority in rabbinical law.
[''Mutzal meEsh,'' p. 39]
See also
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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 members ...
References
Its bibliography:
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Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.;
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Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider (30 March 1816, Prostějov, Moravia, Austrian Empire – 24 January 1907, Berlin) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider ( 1782; ...
, Cat. Bodl. col. 926.
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19th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire
Writers from Istanbul
18th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire