Eliyahu de Vidas
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Aaron ben Menahem Mendel of Kamenitz, the first hotelier in the Land of Israel,[3] references his visit to the grave of Eliyahu de Vidas in his 1839 book Sefer Korot Ha-Itim.[4] He states, "here I write of the graves of the righteous to which I paid my respects." After describing the Cave of the Patriarchs and the tombs of such Biblical figures as Ruth and Jesse, Othniel and Abner, he reports, "I also went to a grave said to be that of the Righteous Rav, author of 'Reshit Hokhma'." Today the grave site has been refurbished [5] and can be visited in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Hebron.[6]
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- ↑ Fine 2003, pp. 81: "Cordovero was the teacher of what appears to have been a relatively loose knit circle of disciples. The most important Elijah de Vidas, Abraham Galante, Moses Galante, Hayyim Vital, Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Eleazar Azikri, Samuel Gallico, and an important kabbalist who studied with Cordovero for a short while in the 1560s, Mordechai Dato."
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- ↑ Yosef Freeman, R. Eliyahu de Vidash, student of R. Moshe Cordoviro, (doctoral thesis), Beer Sheva University: Hamo'l, 5722 1992.
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- Photo of the grave of Eliyahu de Vidas from the Old Jewish Cemetery of Hebron
- Video of the grave of Eliyahu de Vidas from the Old Jewish Cemetery of Hebron (starts at 1:19)
- Video of the grave of Eliyahu de Vidas from the Old Jewish Cemetery of Hebron (starts at 11:32)
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- 1518 births
- 1592 deaths
- 16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire
- Kabbalists
- Rabbis in Hebron
- Rabbis in Safed
- Rabbis in Ottoman Galilee
- Sephardi rabbis from Ottoman Palestine
- Exponents of Jewish law
- Burials at Old Jewish cemetery in Hebron