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Eliakim Getzel ben Judah ha-Milzahgi[note 1] (Hebrew: אליקים גצל בן יהודה המילזאהגי; c. 1780, Smiela – 17 July 1854, Brody), also known by the acronym Rabiyah (ראבי״ה), was a Polish-born Talmudist.
Eliakim Getzel ha-Milzahgi was born in the Polish town of Smiela into a prominent rabbinical family that included scholars Ephraim Zalman Margolioth and Jacob of Lissa.[3] He settled in Galicia, where he studied with Kabbalist Israel Ḥarif of Satanov .[3] He worked as the rabbi of a small town, and later as a teacher and merchant in Lemberg and Brody,[3] all while pursuing Jewish scholarship under the patronage of Berish Blumenfeld.[4]
Ha-Milzahgi wrote primarily about Talmud and Kabbalah. The only published book of his was Sefer Rabiyah (Ofen, 1837), a criticism of Leopold Zunz's Die gottesdienstlichen Vorträgeder Juden: historisch entwickelt and of Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport's biography of Eleazar ben Kalir. The work contains a critique of gematria, and a dissertation on Kabbalistic literature.[5]
He also wrote unpublished commentaries on the Zohar, the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, and the Pesikta de-Rav Kahana.[4] He published in the Jewish press a denunciation of the alleged forgeries of Abraham Firkovich, and, in his essay Mirkevet Esh, he argued in favour of permitting train travel on the Sabbath.[4]
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