Shu"t R' Menachem Azaryah MiFano
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Rama mi-Fano
Rama mi-Fano
1548 CE–1620 CE · Acharonim · Fano
R. Menachem Azariah of Fano (Rama mi-Fano, 1548-1620) was the paramount Italian Lurianic kabbalist of the post-Arizal generation and the principal transmitter of Lurianic Kabbalah from Tzfat into European Sephardic-Italian intellectual life. He received the Lurianic tradition from R. Yisrael Sarug and built around himself the most important Italian kabbalistic circle of the era.
His Asarah Ma'amarot (Ten Discourses) is a kabbalistic-philosophical synthesis that introduced Lurianic concepts to a wide European audience; his Kanfei Yonah, Yonat Elem, and Pelach HaRimon spread the Sarugian-Lurianic doctrine through Italy and beyond. He was a wealthy supporter of yeshivot in Italy and Eretz Yisrael; his Mantua-area printing house produced editions of major kabbalistic works.
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He was born in 1548 in the Italian town of Fano.
About Fano
Fano is an Adriatic coastal town in the Marche region of central Italy, where the ancient Via Flaminia reaches the sea. Its Roman name, Fanum Fortunae, came from a temple of Fortune, and Augustus founded a colony there; his arch still stands. After Byzantine rule the town was donated to the papacy in 754, was ruled by the Malatesta family from 1356, and returned to the Papal States. Pope Clement VIII was born in Fano, and the kabbalist Menahem Azariah da Fano was born there in 1548 and later lived in Reggio and Mantua.
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Mordechai Yoffe, Jedidiah Norzi, Leon de Modena, Chaim HaKohen, Saúl Levi Morteira
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Asarah Ma'amaros
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