Rabbi Yecheskel Medini, The Sdei Chemed
A Cluster of Genius
From the Biography Series

The 12-volume Halachic encyclopedia The Sdei Chemed was so ambitious a work, it seems impossible that one man single-handedly undertook it, but in his small town in Crimea, that is precisely what Rabbi Yecheskel Medini did. Rabbi Wein describes the man, his scholarship, and his journeys through the Sephardic world that gave him the status of “holy man.”