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eve on behalf of all the judges who had served on the rabbinical court from Lavi's time to the present. Lavi's efforts to revive Torah education also halted the spiritual decline among
Tripoli Jewry; 300 years after his death, eleven rabbinical academies were operating in the city. Libyan Jews
331:", was sung every Friday night by Tripoli Jews to the melody that Lavi himself composed. Lavi also served as a physician to the Turkish governor and represented the Jewish community to the ruling authorities. He was said to be highly respected by the government ministers.
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on a firm footing and appointed more judges to lead the community into the future. In later generations, Tripoli Jews had the custom of reciting a memorial prayer every
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317:, with people reading from it on weekdays, Shabbats, and at special social gatherings. Lavi fixed the prayer rite in Tripoli according to the Sephardi
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Tripoli Jewish community's religious institutions, the revival of
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to Israel, but was kidnapped and held for ransom by "Arab bandits". He was redeemed and came to
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