Elazar ben Moshe Azikri was a kabbalist, preacher and poet of the Land of Israel. He lived and taught in Tzfat during its zenith in the 16th century. He came from a family that had been expelled from Spain. He was one of a handful of rabbis to receive the renewed rabbinic semichah initiated by Rabbi Yaakov Berav. In 1588, he launched an effort called Sukkat Shalom, which sought to rouse many people to the penitence needed to hurry the redemption. His famous work Sefer Charedim was a part of that effort. The book blends a halachic enumeration of the mitzvot with Kabbalist ethics, and is one of the central works of it genre. His poem Yedid Nefesh, published in Sefer Charedim, is one of the most well known and beloved Hebrew poems. He also wrote talmudic commentaries.
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