Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi (

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: רבי יצחק בן אליעזר הלוי; d. 1070) also known as Rabbi Isaac Segan Lewiyah (Hebrew: רבי יצחק סגן לויה) was an 11th-century French

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, liturgical poet and

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who flourished in

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. Born in

Lorraine Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gr ...

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in his early years he studied under

Gershom ben Judah Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960 -1040) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom ( he, רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom") and also commonly known to scholars of Judaism by the title ''Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah'' ("Our teacher Gershom the light of the ...

, later moving to

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where he served as the city's

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. He was an important teacher of

Rashi Shlomo Yitzchaki ( he, רבי שלמה יצחקי; la, Salomon Isaacides; french: Salomon de Troyes, 22 February 1040 – 13 July 1105), today generally known by the acronym Rashi (see below), was a medieval French rabbi and author of a compre ...

, whom he was apparently related to. Rashi mentions him in his commentary on the Talmud and twice in his commentary on the

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. He was the author of four wedding

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, known as "Yotzer", "Ofan," "Zulat," and "Reshut".

Abraham Zacuto Abraham Zacuto ( he, , translit=Avraham ben Shmuel Zacut, pt, Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto; 12 August 1452 – ) was a Castilian astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian who served as Royal Astronomer to King John II of Portugal. ...

states that he died in 1070 while

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states that he died between 1070 and 1096. For the partial collection of Rabbi Yitzchak Ben Eliezer Halevi's scanned manuscripts, see the Ketiv website - The National Library of Israel

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