Joseph Shalit Riqueti

Joseph Shalit ben Eliezer Riqueti (Richetti) was a Jewish-Italian scholar born at Safed, and who lived in the second half of the 17th century at Verona, where he directed a Talmudical school. He was the author of "Ḥokmat ha-Mishkan" or "Iggeret Meleket ha-Mishkan" (Mantua, 1676), on the construction of the First Temple. He also published a map of Palestine which Zunz supposes to have been prepared as one of the illustrations of a Passover Haggadah.

Besides his own works Joseph edited "Ḥibbur Ma'asiyyot" (Venice, 1646), a collection of moral tales, and Gershon ben Asher's "Yiḥus ha-Ẓaddiḳim," to which he added notes of his own (Mantua, 1676). He is possibly the ealiest author to mention the "Midrash ha-Gadol", although it is not clear whether he was referring to the Yemenite work currently known by that title.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

*Graziadio Nepi-Mordecai Ghirondi, "Toledot Gedole Yisrael", p. 213;
*Zunz, in Asher's edition of Benjamin of Tudela's Massa'ot, ii. 286;
*Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1526;
*Marco Mortara, "Indice", p. 54.

External links

* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=525&letter=J&search=Joseph%20Shalit%20Riqueti Jewish Encyclopedia article for Joseph Shalit Riqueti] , by Richard Gottheil and Isaac Broydé.