Terni, Mattathiah Nissim Ben Jacob Israel:

By: Executive Committee of the Editorial Board. , M. Seligsohn

Italian rabbi and poet; flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was rabbi at Florence, Urbino, Pesaro, and Sinigaglia. He wrote: "Sefat Emet," halakic decisions (Leghorn, 1797); "Midbar ba-'Arabah," on the marriage laws (Florence, 1807 [?]); "Midbar Mattanah,"responsa, in four parts ( ib. 1810; the appendix, in Italian, was published at Urbino). A volume of poems by him is entitled "No'am we-Ḥobelim we-Derek Emunah" (Geiger, "Zeit. Jüd. Theol." iii. 286, No. 44).