Hayyim ben Jacob Alfandari
Hayyim ben Jacob Alfandari (1588 – 1640) was a talmudic educator and writer, teaching at Constantinople in 1618. He was the pupil of Aaron ben Joseph Sason. Some of his responsa were published in the Maggid me-Reshit (He Tells from the Beginning), Constantinople, 1710, which contains also the responsa of his son Isaac Raphael, and which was edited by his grandson Hayyim ben Isaac Raphael. His novellæ on several Talmudic treatises are still extant in manuscript. Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.; Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 853; Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No. 4668. See also Alfandari References 1588 births 1640 deaths 17th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Rabbis from Istanbul Writers from Istanbul Turkish Sephardi Jews Sephardi rabbis