Galipapa, Elijah

Rabbi of Rhodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; probably born in Bulgaria. He emigrated to Palestine, but later removed to Rhodes. He was the author of "Yede Eliyahu," a work on the rabbinical institutions ("taḳḳanot"), in which the order adopted by Maimonides is followed (Constantinople, 1728).

Bibliography:

  * Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim;
  * Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim.



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