Shlomo ben Yitzchak HaLevi (1532–1600) was a prominent rabbinic scholar in

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, during the Jewish community's "Golden Age." Among his other duties, he served the exiled Jews from

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, Portugal. His grandson, Shlomo ben Yitzchak HaLevi II, most well known for his

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''Maharash Levi'' (or ''Maharash L'veit HaLevi''), published in Thessaloniki in 1652.https://www.hebrewbooks.org/1834 These responsa are arranged according to the four-volume structural model of the '' Arba'ah Turim'', and have been cited by such later rabbinic authorities as Rabbi Avraham Gombiner in his ''Magen Avraham''.

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Rabbinic legal texts and responsa Rabbis from Thessaloniki 16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Levites 1600 deaths 1532 births {{Greece-rabbi-stub