Saul Levi Morteira [SEP] place of birth
Saul Levi Morteira
Saul Levi Morteira or Mortera ( 1596  – 10 February 1660) was a Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent.
Life.
In a Spanish poem Daniel Levi de Barrios speaks of him as being a native of Germany (""de Alemania natural""). When in 1616 Morteira escorted the body of the physician Elijah Montalto from France to Amsterdam, the Sephardic congregation Beth Jaacob in Amsterdam (House of Jacob) elected him hakham in succession to Moses ben Aroyo.
Morteira was the founder
Midrash of Rabbi Moshe Alshich on the Torah". Translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk, volume 3, pages 1112–21. New York, Lambda Publishers, 2000. .
- Saul Levi Morteira. “Guarded Him as the Pupil of His Eye.” Amsterdam, 1645. Reprinted in Marc Saperstein. "Exile in Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteira’s Sermons to a Congregation of “New Jews,”" pages 447–88. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2005. .
- Thomas Hobbes. "Leviathan",