Moses ben Joseph Ventura (called also Ventura of Tivoli and Ventura of Jerusalem) was
rabbi
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of
Silistria
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,
Bulgaria
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, in the latter half of the 16th century. He was educated at
Jerusalem
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, but later settled in Silistria. Ventura was the author of ''Yemin Mosheh'' (Mantua, 1624; 2d ed., Amsterdam, 1718; 3d ed., The Hague, 1777), a commentary on the ''
Shulḥan 'Aruk
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'', ''Yoreh De'ah''.
Aaron Alfandari, in his commentary entitled ''Yad Aharon,'' ascribes to him the ''Haggahot we-Hassagot 'al Bet Yosef,'' a commentary, as yet unpublished (ca. 1906), on the four parts of the ''
Bet Yosef''.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
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Steinschneider
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, ''Cat. Bodl.'' col. 2008;
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Benjacob
Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob (January 10, 1801, Ramygala – July 2, 1863, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian Jewish Maskil, best known as a bibliographer, author, and publisher. His 17-volume Hebrew Bible included Rashi, Mendelssohn, as well as his own ''M ...
, ''Oẓar ha-Sefarim,'' p. 224;
*Fürst, ''Bibl. Jud.'' iii.433.
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16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire
Bulgarian rabbis
People from Silistra