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a Jewish writer of note, was born at Gradiska in 1681; studied at Padua, and graduated as doctor of medicine. In 1709 he was ordained by Leon Briele rabbi of Mantua, and in 1721 he was called to the rabbinate at Ancona, where he died in 1740. He wrote, ùåú ùîù öã÷ä , a collection of legal decisions (2 parts, Venice, 1742, 1743): òéåֹ äãòú , The Tree of Knowledge, a commentary on the ethical work of Jedaja Penini, entitled Bechinat Olam (Venice, 1704): — an approbation to Isaac Norzi's òèåø áëåøé ÷öéø (ibid. 1715, 1717). Comp. Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:391; Wolf, Biblioth. Hebr. 3:1160; Jocher, A llgem. Gelehrten Lex. s.v.