Rabbi Elazar Azikri

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Rabbi Elazar Azikri was a 16th-century Safed kabbalist and rabbi best known as the author of the mystical work "Sefer Haredim" and the devotional poem "Yedid Nefesh."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf author
kabbalist
rabbi
associatedWith Safed Kabbalistic circle NERFINISHED
mystical pietism
century 16th century
country Ottoman Empire
era early modern Kabbalah
post-medieval Jewish philosophy
familyName Azikri NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Halakha
Jewish ethics
Kabbalah NERFINISHED
genre Jewish law
Kabbalistic literature
devotional poetry
ethics
givenName Elazar NERFINISHED
influenced Jewish liturgical poetry
later Kabbalists
languageOfWork Hebrew
liturgicalUseOfWork Yedid Nefesh is recited in some Jewish communities on Shabbat NERFINISHED
Yedid Nefesh is used as a devotional hymn in various prayer customs NERFINISHED
movement Kabbalah NERFINISHED
notableFor composition of the poem Yedid Nefesh
emphasis on inner devotion and fear of Heaven
systematizing commandments by bodily organs in Sefer Haredim
notableWork Sefer Haredim NERFINISHED
Yedid Nefesh NERFINISHED
occupation author
poet
rabbi
placeOfActivity Ottoman Palestine NERFINISHED
Safed NERFINISHED
religion Judaism
tradition Sephardi Judaism NERFINISHED
workSubject commandments in the Torah
love of God
religious devotion
workTitle Sefer Haredim NERFINISHED
Yedid Nefesh NERFINISHED
workType devotional poem
halakhic-ethical treatise

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Old Cemetery of Safed hasGraveOf Rabbi Elazar Azikri