Chaim Hezekiah Medini (Hebrew: חיים חזקיה בן רפאל אליהו הלוי מדיני) also known as the Sdei Chemed - the title of his chief halakhic work - was a rabbinical writer of the nineteenth century. He was born at Jerusalem, the son of Rabbi Raphael Eliahu Medini. At the age of nineteen, on completing his studies in his native city, he received the rabbinical diploma. Wikipedia
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