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Pachad Yitzchak

Pachad Yitzchak

1679 CE–1756 CE · Acharonim · Ferrara

R. Yitzchak Hezekiah Lampronti (1679-1756) was the leading Italian-Sephardic halachist of the 18th century and a physician by training. Born in Ferrara and educated at the University of Padua medical faculty, he served as a community rabbi and physician in Ferrara for over four decades.

His magnum opus Pachad Yitzchak is the first comprehensive Hebrew-language halachic encyclopedia — 13 large folio volumes organized alphabetically by topic, citing every relevant Talmudic, rishonic, and acharonic source on each subject. Completed and published over a century after his death (final volumes appeared in 1888), it remains an indispensable reference work, especially for Italian-Sephardic halachic minhag.

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Stop 1 of 11679–1756Born, Rabbi, Physician, Encyclopedist

FerraraפרארהItaly

What they did here

Born in Ferrara. Earned a medical degree at Padua. Served as community rabbi and physician in Ferrara for over four decades; composed the vast Pachad Yitzchak encyclopedia here over a working lifetime. Died in Ferrara 1756.

About Ferrara

16c. Italian-Jewish center; Sforno's main residence.

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