a Jewish writer of Spain, who flourished in the 16th century, is the author of, מרפא לנפש, or Healing of the Soul, an ascetical work, treating on repentance (Venice, 1595 ): — יד חרועים, on the Jewish, Christian, and Mohammedan calendar (ibid. 1594-95): — ישע אלהים, a grammatical and pedagogical commentary on the book of Esther (ibid. 1595). See Furst,. Bibl. Jud. 3:541; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, s.v.; De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico Degli Autori Ebrei (Germ. transl.), page 333. (B.P.)