'''Chaim Hezekiah Medini''' was a Rabbinical writer of the nineteenth century. He was born at Jerusalem 1833, the son of Rabbi Raphael_Eliahu_Medini. At the age of nineteen, on completing his studies in his native city, he received the rabbinical diploma. He then went to Constantinople, where for thirteen years he was a member of a rabbinical court. In 1866 he was called as chief rabbi to Kara-Su-Bazar in the Crimea. The Krymchaks regarded him as their greatest teacher. In 1889 Medini returned to Palestine, staying first at Jerusalem, and going in 1891 to Hebron, where he hwas acting chief rabbi until his death in 1904. His nickname was "Sedei Chemed", the title of his chief halakhic work. Medini's works include: ''Miktab le-Ḥizḳiyahu'' (Smyrna, 1865), Talmudic studies and ''Responsa''; ''Or Li'' (ib. 1874), ''responsa''; ''Paḳḳu'ot Sadeh'' (Jerusalem, 1900); ''Sedei Chemed,'' his chief work, an encyclopedic collection of laws and decisions in alphabetical order, twelve volumes of which have appeared since 1890 (Warsaw). Bibliography: Nahum Sokolov, in ''Sefer ha-Shanah,'' Warsaw, 1900. ==References== *{{JewishEncyclopedia}} Medini, Chaim Hezekiah Medini, Chaim Hezekiah Medini, Chaim Hezekiah He:חיים_חזקיהו_מדיני {{Judaism-bio-stub}}