a Jewish rabbi, flourished about the middle of the 17th century. He was a pupil of Saul Mortera, and afterwards rabbi at the academy Keter Tora of Amsterdam, and lastly rabbi of the congregation of the Sephardim at Hamburg. He wrote
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on Jewish rites, in three parts (Amsterd. 1668): — academic treatises in the Portuguese language, under the title Questoens et discoursos academicos, que compoz et recitan na illustre Academia
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etjuntamente alguns sermons compostos por o dito (Hamb. 1688). See Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1, 97; 3, 58 sq.; De Rossi, Dizionario storico degli autori Ebrei, p. 264 (Germ. transl. by Hamberger); First, Bibl. Jud. 3, 101. (B. P.)