The Mabit (Rabbi Moshe di Trani)

Rabbi of Safed · 1500–1580

Sephardi · EstablishedExpulsion & Safed

One of the great sages of Safed, ordained by Rabbi Yaakov Berab in 1538. His responsa and his Kiryat Sefer on the Rambam made him an authority alongside Maran.

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