Elijah Alfandari was a writer on matrimonial law, and rabbi

Rabbi

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 at Constantinople

Constantinople

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 in the latter half of the 18th and in the beginning of the 19th century. He published two works on matrimonial law, Seder Eliyahu Rabbah we-Zuṭṭa (The Great and Small Order of Elijah), Constantinople, 1719, and Miktab me-Eliyahu (A Letter from Elijah), Constantinople, 1723. His cousin, Ḥayyim Alfandari (the Younger)

Hayyim Alfandari (the Younger)

Hayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari was rabbi in Constantinople during the latter half of the 17th and in the beginning of the 18th-century. In his old age he went to Palestine, where he died. He was the author of Esh Dat , a collection of homilies printed together with his uncle's Muẓẓal me-Esh in...

, in a question of law which he submitted to him, refers to him as a great authority in rabbinical law (Muẓẓal me-Esh, p. 39).

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  Chaim Joseph David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia , commonly known as the Chida , was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.- Biography :Azulai was born in Jerusalem, where he received his education...
  
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• Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 926.