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AZULAI, YITZHAK ZERAHIA (Father of the Chid”a, 1702-65). Autograph Manuscript: Derush LeParshath Zachor. - Written in a Sephardic cursive Hebrew hand. pp. 14. Trace wormed. Modern boards. 12mo. (Jerusalem) Mid 18th-century Rabbi Isaac Zerachia Azulai was a rabbinic scholar and judge in Jerusalem. He was the father of Rabbi Chaim Yoseph David Azulai, the renowned Chid”a (1724-1807), one of the most prolific and talented Torah scholars of the past several centuries. The Chid”a quotes his father dozens of times in his writings. For a list of citations, see M. Benayahu, R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai, Vol. 2 (1959) pp. 312-15.