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a Jewish writer, father of Jacob, at one time a rabbi in Fez, Africa, is the author of discourses on the first four books of the Pentateuch, entitled, 8י מבקש י 8(Venice, 1596). Besides, he wrote, דבר שמואל, comments on passages of the Midrash Rabba (ibid. eod.). See First, Bibl. Jud. 1, 155 sq.; De Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), p. 71; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)