GERASI, DANIEL BEN ELIJAH:

Turkish Talmudist and preacher of the seventeenth century; lived at Salonica, where he died about 1705. He was the author of "Odeh Adonai," sermons (Venice, 1681-82). Some Talmudic sentences of his are referred to by Ḥayyim Benveniste ("Ba'i Ḥayye, Yoreh De'ah," 120; "Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ," 154, 155; "Keneset ha-Gedolah," second part, 1d).

Bibliography:
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 853;
  • Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 790.
D. I. Ber.
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