Rabbi Elijah Ali Wedeles (Spiro) Spira

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Rabbi Elijah Ali Wedeles (Spiro) Spira

Hebrew: רבי אליה שפירא
Also Known As: "Eliah", "Eliyahu Elia"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Prague, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Death: April 14, 1712 (50)
Prague, Czech Republic (peste)
Immediate Family:

Son of Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Spira - Wedeles and Sheva Scheba bat Samuel Spira
Husband of Dobrisch Spira
Father of Simon Elias Wedeles Spira; Samuel Wedeles (Spiro) Spira; Wolf Spira; Arjeh Loeb Elia Spira and Rebekka Spiro Fraenkel
Brother of Aaron Yechiel Michel Michael Jechiel Spira - Wedeles; Jitel Reicher Backofen; Rachel Ries (Spira); Freudel Turnau and Shifra Oppenheim
Half brother of 1st Daughter Spira-Fränkel and Schlawa Bunzel

Occupation: Rabbi
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About Rabbi Elijah Ali Wedeles (Spiro) Spira

Elijah Spira:

Son of Benjamin Wolf Spira;

Elijah Spira died at Prague April 14, 1712. He was rabbi at Tiktin, and afterward preacher and director of a large Talmudic academy at Prague.

He published "Eliyahu Zuṭa," a commentary on that part of Mordecai Jafe's "Lebush" relating to the Shulḥan 'Aruk, Oraḥ Ḥayyim (Prague, 1689, 1701).

His valuable work "Eliyahu Rabbah" (Sulzbach, 1757), containing discussions on the Oraḥ Ḥayyim, was printed posthumously by his son, whose name is not given.

"Shishah Shiṭṭot," novellæ on six Talmudic treatises, were published by his grandson Elijah b. Wolf Spira
(Fürth, 1768).

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1017&letter=S

https://hebrewbooks.org/41130



décédé de la peste en 1713

cf GenAmi 45 (septembre 2008)



"Die Grabschriften des alten Judenfriedhof in Wien" - Dr. Bernhard Wachstein, Band I pg. 404

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Rabbi Elijah Ali Wedeles (Spiro) Spira's Timeline

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