Maharival

Rabbi Yosef ibn Lev, known by his acronym Maharibal, was one of the foremost Ottoman poskim of the sixteenth century and a contemporary of Rabbi Yosef Karo. He served as a leading dayyan in Salonika and later in Constantinople under the patronage of Doña Gracia Mendes, and his four-volume Shu"t Maharival is a cornerstone of Sephardic responsa literature.