Shu"t Maharival
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Maharival
Maharival
1503 CE–1580 CE · Acharonim · Bitola
Rabbi Yosef ben David ibn Lev, remembered by the acronym Maharival, was among the leading legal authorities of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Jewish world. Born around 1505 in Monastir (today Bitola, in North Macedonia), he was appointed a judge in his native town while still young, then moved to Salonika about 1534 after a dispute with a colleague on the court. His years there were shadowed by hardship, including the murder of one son and the drowning of another, and around 1550 he relocated to Constantinople. There he taught in the academy endowed by Doña Gracia Nasi, and he remained in the city until his death in 1580. His responsa, gathered in four parts and known as Shu"t Maharival, became a standard reference in Sephardic legal literature. In 1556 he lent his authority to the trade boycott of Ancona following the persecution of former conversos there.
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