Isaac Ben Elijah Sheni (Shani):

By: Solomon Schechter , M. Seligsohn

Turkish rabbi; lived at Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century. The name "Sheni" is followed by the letters , which Steinschneider ("Cat. Bodl." col. 1155) suggests should be read as , the initials of the eulogy "Nafsho Ẓerurah bi-Ẓeror ha-Ḥayyim." Isaac wrote a work called "Me'ah She'arim," a double commentary, simple and cabalistic, on one hundred of the six hundred and thirteen commandments (Salonica, 1543). He also revised and edited Menahem Recanati's "Ṭa'ame ha-Miẓwot" (Salonica, 1544). He is, perhaps, identical with Isaac ibn Farḥi (Steinschneider, l.c. ).