Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal

Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal[notes 1] (October 15, 1733, Hebron, Ottoman Empire – May 5, 1777, Barbados) was an itinerant Palestinian rabbi and preacher.

Stiles, in his diary, speaks lovingly and admiringly of his Jewish friend; gives a long account of his dress, manner, and personality; and, in a series of entries occupying many pages, draws up a complete memoir of his career in Newport.

Thus impressed by Carigal, Stiles invited him and Aaron Lopez, a respected local Jewish merchant, to his home on March 30, 1773.

The two immediately hit it off; according to Stiles' records they met 28 times before Carigal's departure six months later, to discuss a wide variety of topics ranging from the politics of the Holy Land to the mysticism of the Kabbalah.

"Carregal (Caregal, Carigal, Carrigal, Karigal, Karigel, Karigol, Kargol, Kragol), Raphael Ḥayyim Isaac".

Portrait of Ezra Stiles by Samuel King. Note the Hebrew Tetragrammaton in the blue circle on the wall to the left, and a book on the shelf with the Hebrew words "Talmud B", "Ibn Ezra", and "Rashi".