Hayyim ben Menahem Algazi

Hayyim ben Menahem Algazi (Hebrew: חיים בן מנחם אלגאזי) was the rabbi of the island of Rhodes and Smyrna and author of "Bene Ḥayyai". He lived in the seventeenth century.

Rabbi
Hayyim ben Menahem Algazi
חיים בן מנחם אלגאזי
Title page of "Bene Ḥayyai"
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ReligionJudaism
Parent
  • Menahem Algazi (father)
Occupationrabbi

Bene Ḥayyai

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Algazi authored "Bene Ḥayyai" (Sons of My Life), containing notes and novellæ in the sequence of the Arba'ah Turim. It was edited by the author's pupil, Meir Danon, and published at Orthokoi (near Constantinople) in 1712. Appended to it are the author's "Chiddushim," miscellaneous notes on Shevu'ot, Sanhedrin, Gittin, etc., edited by Hayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari.[1][2]

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  1. ^   One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainGotthard Deutsch (1901–1906). "ALGAZI, ḤAYYIM BEN MENAHEM". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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  2. ^ Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob. "Bene Ḥayyai" בני חיי. אוצר הספרים (in Hebrew). Vilnius. p. 80. Retrieved Nov 13, 2023.