Rabbi Shalom Shabazi

Rabbi Shalom Shabazi

Poet and kabbalist · 1619–c. 1720

Mizrahi · EstablishedOttoman, North African & Western Centers

The greatest poet of Yemenite Jewry, whose hundreds of poems in Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic are sung at every Yemenite celebration. His tomb in Ta'izz was a place of pilgrimage.

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