Hezekiah da Silva

Rabbi Hezekiah da Silva was a 17th-century scholar. Born in Livorno in 1659, he emigrated to Jerusalem at age 20. There he learned in the yeshiva of Rabbi Moses Galante for 10 years, after which he took on the position of head of the yeshiva there upon Galante’s death. De Silva is known for his Pri Chadash, a celebrated legal work on the Shulchan Arukh, a version of which is printed in most standard editions of the Shulchan Arukh.