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Élie Hayyim (Elijah Ḥayyim) ben Benjamin de Genazzano

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Region: Toscane / Italie centrale (région de Genazzano, près de Rome)

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Kabbalist, physician and Italian theologian, student of the Talmudist and Kabbalist Benjamin of Montalcino. He defended Kabbalah against Sephardic intellectuals who had fled Spain and engaged in a religious disputation with the Franciscan Francesco (Francisco) d'Acquapendente. His epistle Iggeret Ḥamudot, addressed to David, son of Benjamin of Montalcino, is a renowned defense of kabbalistic doctrine.

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