Elazar ben Moshe Azikri

Rabbi Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (Hebrew: אלעזר בן משה אזכרי‎) (1533–1600) was a Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer.

Azikri was born in Safed to a Sephardic family who had settled in Ottoman Syria after the expulsion of Jews from Spain.

He is counted with the greatest Rabbis and intellectuals of his time: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, Yosef Karo, Moshe Cordovero, Isaac Luria, and Israel ben Moses Najara, among others.

[1] In 1588 Rabbi Elazar founded the "Sukat Shalom" movement, which acted to arouse in Jews devotion to religion.

Rabbi Elazar's best known Book, the Sefer Haredim (Hebrew: ספר חרדים), is a famous discussion of the 613 commandments and is one of the main works of Jewish deontology.