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Isaac ben Elijah Sheni (Shani)
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Turkish rabbi; lived at Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century. The name "Sheni" is followed by the letters 
, which Steinschneider ("Cat. Bodl." col. 1155) suggests should be read as 
, the initials of the eulogy "Nafsho Ẓerurah bi-Ẓeror ha-Ḥayyim." Isaac wrote a work called "Me'ah She'arim," a double commentary, simple and cabalistic, on one hundred of the six hundred and thirteen commandments (Salonica, 1543). He also revised and edited Menahem Recanati's "Ṭa'ame ha-Miẓwot" (Salonica, 1544). He is, perhaps, identical with Isaac ibn Farḥi (Steinschneider, c.).
Bibliography:- Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. , No. 1162; , No. 1162;
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, 2:74;
- Zunz, Z. G. p. 453;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1155;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 1:276.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Isaac ben Elijah Sheni (Shani)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/i/isaac-ben-elijah-sheni-shani.html. 1901.