About Nehorai Garmon
Lived 1682 – 1760 (aged 77–78). Nehorai Garmon was a rabbi, poet and theologian.
Nehorai Garmon (; –1760) was a rabbi and poet from Ottoman Tripolitania.
Born in Tripoli, Garmon went to Tunis at the age of twenty, and studied Talmud under Isaac Lumbroso, whom he succeeded in the rabbinate. He was the author of Yeter ha-Baz, published posthumously in Livorno in 1787, consisting of novellæ on the Talmud and on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Printed with the work are eleven poems of the author, and the novellæ of his son Ḥayyim ( 1781). Garmon lost a large part of his writings in an attack on the Jewish quarter.
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Who was Nehorai Garmon?
Tunisian rabbi and poet
When was Nehorai Garmon born?
Nehorai Garmon was born in 1682 in Tripoli.
When did Nehorai Garmon die?
Nehorai Garmon died in 1760 in Tunis.
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Nehorai Garmon was a rabbi, poet and theologian.
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Nehorai Garmon's recorded nationality: Tunis vilayet, Beylik of Tunis.
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