Maharash Levi
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Shlomo ben Yitzchak HaLevi (1532 - 1600) was a prominent rabbinic scholar in Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
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, Greece
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, during the Jewish community's "Golden Age." Among his other duties, he served the exiled Jews from Évora
Évora
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, Portugal
Portugal
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 http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Thessalonika/thev1_003.html. He is most well known for his responsa
Responsa
Responsa comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them.-In the Roman Empire:Roman law recognised responsa prudentium, i.e...

 Maharash Levi (or Maharash L'veit HaLevi), published in Thessaloniki in 1652 http://www.hebrewbooks.org/1834. These respona are arranged according to the four volume structural model of the Arba'ah Turim
Arba'ah Turim
Arba'ah Turim , often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code, composed by Yaakov ben Asher...

, and have been cited by such later rabbinic authorities as Rabbi Avraham Gombiner
Avraham Gombiner
Abraham Abele Gombiner , known as the Magen Avraham, born in Gąbin , Poland, was a rabbi, Talmudist and a leading religious authority in the Jewish community of Kalish, Poland during the seventeenth century. His full name is Avraham Avli ben Chaim HaLevi from the town of Gombin...

in his Magen Avraham.
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