BULAH, RAPHAEL MOSES BEN JOSEPH DE:

Palestinian Talmudist and rabbi; died at Jerusalem March 23, 1773, where he had been rabbi, and had conducted a Talmudic school. He wrote the "Geṭ Mekushshar" on the divorce laws, Constantinople, 1767; "Ḥayye 'Olam" (Eternal Life), homiletic essays on the first and second books of the Pentateuch, ib. 1752; and "Zekut Mosheh," methodology of the Talmud and divorce laws.

Bibliography:
  • Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 132, ii. 52;
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 100;
  • Ḥazan, Hama'alot li-Shelomoh, p. 53b;
  • Luncz, Jerusalem, i. 129.
L. G. I. Ber.
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