Jacob ben Ḥayyim Alfandari (1620 – 1695) was a talmudic writer and rabbi

Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

 in Istanbul

Istanbul

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 in the 17th century. In 1686, he refers to himself as an old man (Muẓẓal me-Esh, p. 5). He was the author of a volume of responsa edited by his nephew Ḥayyim 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...

 (Istanbul, 1718), entitled Muẓẓal me-Esh (Plucked from the Fire), because it was saved from a conflagration which consumed most of the author's manuscripts. Others of his responsa

Responsa

Responsa comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them.-In the Roman Empire:Roman law recognised responsa prudentium, i.e...

 are printed in the collection of his father and in that of Joseph Kazabi (Istanbul, 1736; see Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1179).