Eliakim Götzel Samiler

Eliakim Getzel ben Judah ha-Milzahgi (; , Smiela – 17 July 1854, Brody), also known by the acronym Rabiyah , was a Polish-born Talmudist.

Biography Eliakim Getzel ha-Milzahgi was born in the Polish town of Smiela into a prominent rabbinical family that included scholars Ephraim Zalman Margolioth and Jacob of Lissa. He settled in Galicia, where he studied with Kabbalist . He worked as the rabbi of a small town, and later as a teacher and merchant in Lemberg and Brody, all while pursuing Jewish scholarship under the patronage of Berish Blumenfeld.

Ha-Milzahgi wrote primarily about Talmud and Kabbalah. The only published book of his was Sefer Rabiyah (Ofen, 1837), a criticism of Leopold Zunz's Die gottesdienstlichen Vorträgeder Juden: historisch entwickelt and of Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport's biography of Eleazar ben Kalir. The work contains a critique of gematria, and a dissertation on Kabbalistic literature.

He also wrote unpublished commentaries on the Zohar, the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, and the Pesikta de-Rav Kahana. He published in the Jewish press a denunciation of the alleged forgeries of Abraham Firkovich, and, in his essay Mirkevet Esh, he argued in favour of permitting train travel on the Sabbath.