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Year 5250 of the Jewish calendar.

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Rabbi Yosef Biktelia was in the year 5250, which is about 1330 years since the destruction, [Shomer HaDat, letter 115, paragraph 1, (should read 1422 years since the destruction) (see above year 5380 and year 5120, thus Rabbi Yosef Biktelia) he authored Sefer Shaarei Orah, and Bat Egoz, and Sefer HaKavod, Sefer Luach or Ilan, Sefer Kabbalah manuscript, Merkavat Yechezkel manuscript, commentary on the Haggadah of Pesach, Shaar HaShamayim, (see Siftei Yeshenim)]. It is written in the introduction to Sefer Charedim in the name of Rabbi Yitzchak HaMon of Akko [(Chavel Me'irat Einayim, commentary on the Ramban on Torah, and Sefer HaSodot, and it is written in Nifla'ot Chochmah briefly that he was a student colleague of the Ramban)], that this Rabbi Yosef became ill to the point of near death, and in slumber not like slumber, etc., he saw two men weighing his sins and merits on scales, balanced equally.

And immediately he awoke and asked for tefillin and he put them on and immediately began to recover and lived. For the scale of merits prevailed:

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Rabbi Eliyah Mizrachi was a distinguished sage who authored a great commentary on Rashi, responsa, and innovative works on mathematics, [including Teshuvot Mayim Amukim, and mathematical calculations, geometry, and a commentary on Sefer Ma'ase Galgal, and maps of the earth]. He was the chief rabbi of Constantinople around the year 5250 [(Tzedah LaDerech)].

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