Saul Adadi (Hebrew: שאול עבדיה אדאדי, 1850 – September 18, 1918)[1] was a Sephardi Hakham, rosh yeshiva, and paytan in the 19th-century Jewish community of Tripoli, Libya.
He preserved the pinkasim (community record books) of the Tripoli Jewish community, unpublished manuscripts of 18th-century Tripoli Jewish leader Rabbi Abraham Khalfon, and sefarim belonging to his father, Hakham Abraham Hayyim Adadi, a senior rabbi of the previous generation.
[2] He was the son of Hakham Abraham Hayyim Adadi (1801–1874), head of the Tripoli rabbinical court and author of several halakhic works.
He was the great-grandson of Hakham Nathan Adadi (1740–1818), one of the leaders of the Tripoli Jewish community in the 19th century, and the great-great-grandson of Hakham Mas'ud Hai Rakkah (1690–1768), author of Ma'aseh Rokeaḥ, who is credited with laying the foundation for the development of the Jewish community of Tripoli into one of "sages, scribes, and kabbalists".
[7] Adadi was the principal of the school,[1][9] and was responsible for testing the children once a week and recording their grades to track the success of the program.