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He died at the stake, together with Judah ben Asher, in the summer of 1391. He is the author of an ethical work in twenty chapters, entitled Menorat ha-Maor (Shining Candelabra). The work commences with a long poem, an acrostic on the author"s name.
Then follows a preface in rimed prose.
The introduction to each chapter is headed by a poem, giving the acrostic of his name, Israel. lieutenant was printed in 1578.
A manuscript of it is in the Bodleian. An abridgment of it was published at Cracow, 1593, under the title Menorat Zahav Kullah (Candelabra Wholly of Gold).
lieutenant is divided into five sections, which contain observations on laws in general on education on commerce on the behavior of litigants and judges in court on conduct toward one"s fellow mentor
This is supplemented by a treatise, שפת אליהו רבה, consisting of Talmudic and midrashic sayings and maxims, which has been published in German (Hebrew characters) in Wagenseil"s Belehrung der Jüdaughter-Deutschen Red-und Schreibart, Königsberg, 1699.
