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Elia Misrachi Ben-Abraham <ref name="term_51174" /> 
<p> (called also Elia Parnas), a noted rabbi, flourished at [[Constantinople]] towards the close of the 15th century. Misrachi was versed not only in rabbinic lore, but also in astronomy and mathematics. He maintained a lively controversy with his contemporary, Mose Kapsoli, a teacher and judge in the old Romanesque congregation of Jews at Constantinople about 1500, on the question whether the children of [[Karaites]] ought to be admitted into the rabbinical schools. Kapsoli denounced the practice as illegal. Misrachi argued not only that it was lawful, but highly expedient, as a means of bringing them to conform to rabbinism. Misrachi labored much in the cause of [[Jewish]] education. He died about 1525. Besides his Chidtshin ( חַדּוּשַׁים ), a collection of novellas on the Sepher Mizvoth Gadol of [[Moses]] de Coucy, and a super-commentary on Rashi's [[Pentateuch]] ( סֵ 8 אֶלַיָה מַזְרָחַי עִל הִתּוֹרָה סֵ 8 הִמַּזְרָחַי ); he wrote also a treatise on arithmetic, מְלֶאכֶת הִמַּסְפָּר; not; also סֵ 8 הִמַּסְפָּר, which was translated into [[Latin]] by O. Schreckfuchs and S. [[Minster]] (Basle, 1546). See First, Bibl. Jud. 2:381; id. Gesch. d. Karlerthums, 2:304; De Rossi, Dizionario (Germ. transl. by Humberger), page 201; Etheridge, Introd. to Hebr. Literat. page 461 sq.; Cassel, Leitfaden fuir jud. Gesch u. Literat. (Berlin, 1872), page 91; Gratz, Gesch. d. Juden, 8:292, 297; Jost,-Gesch. d. Juden. u.s. Sekten, 3:127; Lindo's Conciliator of R. [[Manasseh]] ben-Israel (Lond. 1842), page 28. (B.P.) </p>
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<ref name="term_51174"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/misrachi,+elia,+ben-abraham Elia Misrachi Ben-Abraham from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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