Halakha and responsa, heading a yeshiva, commentary on the Tur
The Knesset HaGedolah on the Tur and the Beit Yosef became one of the foundation books of halakhic ruling, and its author is called after it. The Chida wrote that a learned teacher of halakha does not raise his hand in any ruling without first consulting it.
A rabbi and halakhic authority in Izmir, born in Constantinople, a disciple of Rabbi Yosef of Trani (the Maharit), who blessed him to write a work on the Semag. At the age of 21 he wrote his first book, Dina DeChayei, on the Semag. He served as rabbi in Tire near Izmir and then in Izmir, as a judge and head of a yeshiva, and became known above all for his book Knesset HaGedolah on the Tur and the Beit Yosef.
The archive doesn’t yet record an unbroken road from Rabbi Chaim Benveniste to the chain of transmission: the trail reaches back to Mahari Berab and stops there.