Jedidiah Norzi

Jedidiah Solomon ben Abraham Norzi (1560–1626) (Hebrew: ידידיה נורצי, Yedidya Nortzi) was a Rabbi and exegete, best known for his work Minchat Shai.

Jedidiah Solomon consecrated the greater part of his life to a critical and Masoretic commentary on the Bible, which was considered a standard work.

The author spared no pains to render his critical labors as complete as possible, and to leave the Biblical text in as perfect a condition as thorough learning and conscientious industry could make it.

It was divided into two volumes, the first embracing the Torah and the Five Megillot, and the second comprising the Ketuvim and the Nevi'im, with two small treatises at the end—Ma'amar haMa'arikh, on meteg in Hebrew cantillation, and Kelale BeGaDKaFaT on the begadkefat.

Norzi was greatly influenced by the Spanish biblical scholar, Meir Abulafia, who is cited by him more than six hundred times in Minḥat Shai.