Hayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari

Who is Hayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari?

Hayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari was rabbi in Constantinople during the latter half of the 17th and in the beginning of the 18th-century. In his old age he went to Palestine, where he died. He was the author of Esh Dat, a collection of homilies printed together with his uncle's Muẓẓal me-Esh in Constantinople, 1718. Several short treatises by him are published in the works of others. Azulai speaks very highly of him as a scholar and as a preacher.