Hakham Shimon Lavi | |
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 Title page of Ketem Paz, Part I, by Hakham Shimon Lavi | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Shimon Lavi 1486 Spain |
| Died | 1585 (aged 98–99) Tripoli, Libya |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
Shimon Lavi (Hebrew: שמעון לביא, also Shimon ibn Lavi, Hebrew: שמעון אבן לביא,[a] anglicized as Simeon Labi, 1486–1585)[1][4][b] was a Sephardi Hakham, kabbalist, physician, astronomer, and poet. He is credited with the founding of religious institutions and the revival of Torah study in Tripoli, Libya, in the mid-sixteenth century, where he served as spiritual leader and dayan (rabbinical court judge) for more than three decades. He authored a commentary on the Zohar titled Ketem Paz and the piyyut, "Bar Yochai", a kabbalistic hymn which became widely popular in the Jewish world. Libyan Jews consider him their greatest scholar.[5]
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- ^ "Rabbi Shim'on ibn-Lavi". Ben-Gurion University. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
- ^ "ר' שמעון לביא" [Rabbi Shimon Lavi] (in Hebrew). National Library of Israel. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
- ^ "ר' שמעון לביא זצוק"ל" [Rabbi Shimon Lavi] (in Hebrew). Or Shalom Center. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ a b Scholem, Gershom (1 January 2007). "Labi, Simeon". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
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