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Alessandria della Paglia, Ricchi became tutor in the houses of several wealthy Jews. He was thus successively employed at Göritz, Fiorenzuola, Finale in Modena, and Venice; in the last-named place he opened a school. He then went to Triest, where he was ordained rabbi in 1717 by Hillel Ashkenazi, rabbi of Canea, after which he was invited to the rabbinate of Görz.
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are mostly Isaac Luria's and Hayyim Vital's writings, of which the "Sefer haGilgulim," "Kanfei Yonah," and "Shulchan Arukh" may be particularly mentioned. Ricchi drew also from other kabbalists. The "Olam Katon" was separately edited by
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Florence till 1723, in which year he removed to Leghorn, where for twelve years he engaged in business as a merchant. He spent twenty months in travel, visiting Smyrna, Salonica, Constantinople, Amsterdam, and London, and in 1735 set out for Palestine, spending two
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Ricchi's most important work is the above-cited "Mishnat
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169:"Ma'aseh Hoshev" (Venice, 1716), a treatise on the construction of the Tabernacle and its vessels, in the form of a compendium of the ancient texts on the same subject, together with his commentary. The work is followed by a Hebrew poem on the letters אהחע"ר.
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A responsum of Ricchi's on the modulation of the priests' blessing is to be found in
Nehemiah b. Baruch's "Metzitz uMeliẓ" (Venice, 1715). His "Makkat Bakkurot," strictures on Phinehas Hai Piatelli's "Tosefet Bikkurei Katzir," is as yet unpublished.
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Thus, the number of massekhtot in this work is 112, corresponding to the numerical value of the sacred name יבק; and the number of chapters 547, equal to the numerical value of Ricchi's name, עמנואל חי ריקי, plus twelve, the number of its letters.
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the order Ṭohorot, treating of the three other realms, namely, those of creative ideas ("beri'ah"), creative formations ("yetzirah"), and creative matter ("asiyah"), and divided into nine masekhtot and 27 chapters;
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Kodashim, covering the realm of emanation ("olam ha-atzilut"), which is styled "the holy of holies," and containing twenty massektot and seventy-eight chapters;
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The second main division, entitled "Mafteach haNeshamot," contains the order Nashim, treating of souls, in twelve masekhtot and 48 chapters.
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the order of Zera'im, covering the kabbalistic cosmology and of metaphysics, and divided into seven masekhtot and eighteen chapters;
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the order Neziḳin, treating of the demons and "kelipot," and divided into six masekhtot and 17 chapters.
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