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

Salonica Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...

. 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 ''Shulchan Aruch'' ( he, שֻׁלְחָן עָרוּך , literally: "Set Table"), sometimes dubbed in English as the Code of Jewish Law, is the most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Judaism. It was authored in Safed (today in I ...

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

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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