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
mystical pietism
century 16th century
country Ottoman Empire
era early modern Kabbalah
post-medieval Jewish philosophy
familyName Azikri
linked to: Zichri
fieldOfWork Halakha
Jewish ethics
Kabbalah
genre Jewish law
Kabbalistic literature
devotional poetry
ethics
givenName Elazar
linked to: Eleazar
influenced Jewish liturgical poetry
later Kabbalists
languageOfWork Hebrew
liturgicalUseOfWork Yedid Nefesh is recited in some Jewish communities on Shabbat
Yedid Nefesh is used as a devotional hymn in various prayer customs
movement Kabbalah
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
Yedid Nefesh
occupation author
poet
rabbi
placeOfActivity Ottoman Palestine
Safed
linked to: Tzfat
religion Judaism
tradition Sephardi Judaism
linked to: Sephardi Jews
workSubject commandments in the Torah
love of God
religious devotion
workTitle Sefer Haredim
Yedid Nefesh
workType devotional poem
halakhic-ethical treatise

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Old Cemetery of Safed hasGraveOf Rabbi Elazar Azikri