Editing Benjamin Musaphia (section)

{{Short description|Jewish doctor, scholar and kabbalist}}
'''Benjamin ben Immanuel Musaphia''' (c. 1606 – 1675), also called '''Benjamin Musaphia''', '''Binyamin Moussafia''' or '''Mussafia''' and '''Dionysius''', was a Jewish doctor, scholar and [[Kabbalah|kabbalist]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=MUSSAFIA (MUSAPHIA), BENJAMIN BEN IMMANUEL - JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11244-mussafia-musaphia-benjamin-ben-immanuel |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref>

Musaphia was probably born in [[Spain]].  He married Sara Abigail da Silva, daughter of Semuel da Silva, in 1628. Their sons and grandsons joined the [[Duke of Holstein-Gottorp|court of the Gottorps]], and a daughter was married to [[Gabriel Milan]], who would later be appointed governor of the [[Danish West Indies]] (now the [[United States Virgin Islands]]). Around this time, Musaphia graduated from the [[University of Padua]] medical school, which was regarded as the best of its kind at the time.

He was a Hebrew lexicographer and philologist.<ref>{{Citation |last=Kaplan |first=Yosef |title='El Sabio Jacob Abendana' and the Spanish Translation of the Mishnah |date=2022-05-26 |work=The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe |pages=132–154 |editor-last=van Boxel |editor-first=Piet |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/43094/chapter-abstract/361563146?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2025-05-04 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oso/9780192898906.003.0006 |isbn=978-0-19-289890-6 |editor2-last=Macfarlane |editor2-first=Kirsten |editor3-last=Weinberg |editor3-first=Joanna|url-access=subscription }}</ref>