This article examines the life and halachic legacy of Rabbi Shemuel ben Moshe ha-Levi Ibn Ḥakan within the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Raised in Cairo, he studied across diverse Jewish communities: Istanbul, Edirne, Jerusalem, and Safed— before returning to Cairo where he served on Rabbi David Ibn Abī Zimra’s (Radbaz) rabbinical court. In the 1530s, he […]