Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas

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Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas (Hebrew: משה יוסף מרדכי מיוחס; Moses Joseph Mordechai Meyuchas) (1738–1805) was Chief Rabbi of Israel (Rishon l’Zion) from 1802–1805.

Meyuchas was born in Jerusalem to the Meyuchas family. He is the author of Sha’ar ha-Mayim (Salonika, 1768) Berachot Mayim (Salonika, 1789,) and Mayin Shaal (Salonika, 1799)[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia Judaica, 1972
  2. ^ Where Heaven Touches Earth, by Dovid Rossoff, 1998, p. 77.