Rabbi Shimon Lavi

Kabbalist and poet · b. 1486

Sephardi · EstablishedExpulsion & Safed

Spanish exile who settled in Tripoli, Libya, and led its Jewish community. He wrote Ketem Paz, a commentary on the Zohar, and the hymn Bar Yohai, sung on Lag BaOmer and Shabbat in Sephardic communities everywhere.

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