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.
