Career
He was the author of "Sha"ar ha-Shamayim" (Venice, 1547. Rödelsheim, 1801), a sort of encyclopedia divided into three parts, treating: (1) of natural phenomena, metals, plants, animals, and manitoba (2) of astronomy, principally extracted from Alfergani and the Almagest.
And (3) of metaphysics, taken from the Moreh Nebukim of Maimonides.