Halakha, leadership and commentary
He agreed to become the rabbi of Jerusalem only with a title that carries no authority over others, “Rishon LeZion” rather than “Rav”, because he saw himself as an equal among equals in Torah greatness. He ordained that the halukah funds be divided into twenty-four parts: twelve for Jerusalem, eight for Safed and four for Hebron.
The first Rishon LeZion and head of the rabbis of Jerusalem in the 17th century, sometimes called “the Magen”; born in Safed, a grandson of Rabbi Moshe Galante the First. He studied in Safed under Rabbi Baruch Barzilai and Rabbi Gabriel Esperanza, and at 34 moved to Jerusalem, where he headed the Beit Yaakov yeshiva and was sent abroad as an emissary. He wrote Elef HaMagen, a collection of responsa containing a thousand replies, and Zevach HaShelamim on the Torah, and died in Jerusalem in 1689.
The archive doesn’t yet record Rabbi Moshe Galante’s teachers, so the road to Sinai can’t be drawn yet.