Creator Bio
Isaac Magriso
18th Century
Isaac ben Moses Magriso lived in Turkey, probably close to Constantinople. He finished Jacob Huli's Ladino anthology of Torah commentary, Me’am Lo’ez, adding the sections on Exodus, Levicitus, and Numbers after Huli's death in 1732.
Content by Isaac Magriso
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Introduction to the Commentary on Numbers—Me’am Lo’ez
The introduction to the first volume of this work, which you already have, explains that one must know what mitzvot God commanded us to perform, and what he obliged us to avoid, to find…
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