Career
"Lima" is not the family name, but a nickname for "Yehudah" (Goldworm 1989, p 161). When a comparatively young man he successively occupied the rabbinates of Brest-Litovsk and Slonim. His fame as a scholar soon reached Vilna, whither he was called, in 1650, to fill the office of chief rabbi.
Lima was of a retiring and diffident disposition, which probably accounts for the paucity of his writings.
Lima did not carry even this work to completion. lieutenant covers only the first 126 chapters of the Eben Ha-Ezer.