Hayyim ben Jacob Alfandari (the Elder)

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Hayyim ben Jacob Alfandari (the Elder) (1588–1640) (Hebrew: חיים בן יעקב אלפנדארק) 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 Ḥayyim ben Isaac Raphael. His novellæ on several Talmudic treatises are still extant in manuscript.

[edit] Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography

• Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.;
• Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 853;
• Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No. 4668.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.