Nehorai Garmon (; –1760) was a

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and poet from Ottoman Tripolitania. Born in Tripoli, Garmon went to

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at the age of twenty, and studied

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under Isaac Lumbroso, whom he succeeded in the rabbinate. He was the author of ''Yeter ha-Baz'', published posthumously in Livorno in 1787, consisting of novellæ on the Talmud and on

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' ''Mishneh Torah''. Printed with the work are eleven poems of the author, and the novellæ of his son Ḥayyim ( 1781). Garmon lost a large part of his writings in an attack on the Jewish quarter.

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