Maharash Levi

{{For|the similarly-nicknamed Chabad rabbi|Maharash}}

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{{Short description|Greek rabbinic scholar (1532–1600)}}{{Infobox rabbi

| honorific-suffix = Ha'Levi

| honorific-prefix = Rabbi

| name = Shlomo ben Yitzchak

| birth_date = 1532

| death_date = 1600 (aged 57–58)

| birth_place = Salonica, Ottoman Empire

| death_place = Salonica, Ottoman Empire

| nationality = Greek

| father = Yitzchak

| occupation = Rabbinic scholar

}}

Shlomo ben Yitzchak HaLevi ({{Langx|he|שלמה בן יצחק לבית הלוי}}; 1532–1600){{Cite book |last=Rivkin |first=Peretz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3PMwDwAAQBAJ |title=Introducing Zeroa, Lechayayim and Keva Hardcover |date=2017-07-27 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=978-1-387-02900-6 |pages=91 |language=en}} was a prominent rabbinic scholar in Thessaloniki, Greece, during the Jewish community's "Golden Age." Among his other duties, he served the exiled Jews from Évora, Portugal.{{Cite book |url=https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Thessalonika/thev1_003.html |title=In Memorium of Salonike; The Greatness and Destruction of Jerusalem of the Balkans |publisher=JewishGen |year=1972 |editor-last=Rekanati |editor-first=David A. |volume=1 |location=Tel Aviv |pages=18, 23 |language=en}}

His grandson, Shlomo ben Yitzchak HaLevi II, is most well known for his responsa Maharash Levi (or Maharash L'veit HaLevi), published in Thessaloniki in 1652.{{Cite book |last=בן יצחק הלוי |first=שלמה |url=https://www.hebrewbooks.org/1834 |title=שו"ת מהר"ש לבית הלוי |year=1652 |location=Thessaloniki |language=he |trans-title=Correspondence from the Rabbinate to Beit Halevi}} These responsa are arranged according to the four-volume structural model of the Arba'ah Turim, and have been cited by such later rabbinic authorities as Rabbi Avraham Gombiner in his Magen Avraham.