Bezalel Ashkenazi was a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud during the 16th century in Israel. He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet, a commentary on the Talmud. He is very straitfoward in his writings and occasionally offers textual emmendments to the Talmud. His most famous disciple was the famous Kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac Luria.
BezalelAshkenazi, a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud, lived in Israel during the 16th century.
During the lifetime of his teachers, Ashkenazi was regarded as one of the highest authorities in the Orient, and he counted among his pupils such men as Isaac Luria and Solomon Adeni.
The reputation of Ashkenazi in Egypt was so great that he could take it upon himself to abrogate the dignity of the nagid, which had existed for centuries and had gradually deteriorated into an arbitrary aristocratic privilege.
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