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Revision as of 10:17, 19 December 2006 by IZAK (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Chaim Hezekiah Medini (1833–1904) (Hebrew: חיים חזקיה בן רפאל אליהו הלוי מדיני) was a rabbinical writer of the nineteenth century. He was born at Jerusalem, the son of Rabbi Raphael Eliahu Medini. At the age of nineteen, on completing his studies in his native city, he received the rabbinical diploma. He then went to Constantinople, where for thirteen years he was a member of a rabbinical court. In 1866 he was called as chief rabbi to Kara-Su-Bazar in the Crimea. The Krymchaks regarded him as their greatest teacher. In 1889 Medini returned to Palestine, staying first at Jerusalem, and going in 1891 to Hebron, where he was acting chief rabbi until his death in 1904.
His nickname was "Sedei Chemed", the title of his chief halakhic work.
Medini's works include: Miktab le-Ḥizḳiyahu (Smyrna, 1865), Talmudic studies and responsa; Or Li (ib. 1874), responsa; Paḳḳu'ot Sadeh (Jerusalem, 1900); Sedei Chemed, his chief work, an encyclopedic collection of laws and decisions in alphabetical order, twelve volumes of which have appeared since 1890 (Warsaw).
Bibliography: Nahum Sokolov, in Sefer ha-Shanah, Warsaw, 1900.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)
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