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RARE POCKET SIZE PRAYER BOOK SHAREI TZION PRINTED IN LEGHORN ITALY BY THE MEKUBAL Rabbi Raphael Meldola, author of Chupas Chasanim MINT CONDITION = POCKET SIZE - Rabbi Raphael Meldola, author of Chupas Chasanim (1754–1828), was the grandson of Rabbi Raphael Meldola, author of Mayim Chaim. He received semichah from the Chida (whom he quotes several times in this sefer). He served as a dayan in Livorno and, in 1805, moved to London to head the Spanish community there, where he became one of the foremost leaders of Anglo-Jewry.