{{Short description|Ottoman Jewish rabbi and talmudist (1568–1639)}} {{Refimprove|date=August 2014}} '''Joseph Trani''' (1568–1639) or '''Joseph di Trani''' was a Talmudist of the latter part of the 16th century who lived in Greece. By contemporary scholars he was called '''Mahrimat''' ({{Langx|he|מהרימ"ט}}), and regarded as one of the foremost Talmudists of his time. Today he is more widely known as '''Maharit''' (Hebrew: {{Script/Hebrew|מהרי"ט}}). He is the son of the Mabit.
He was the author of ''She'elot u-Teshubot'' (responsa), a work in three parts: part i comprises 152 ''responsa'', together with a general index (Constantinople, 1641); part ii consists of 111 ''responsa'' in the order of the first three parts of the ritual codex (Venice, 1645); part iii contains ''responsa'' to the fourth part of the ritual codex, together with ''novellæ'' to the tractate ''Ḳiddushin,'' and supercommentaries on RaN's and Alfasi's commentaries on the tractates ''Ketubot'' and ''Ḳiddushin'' (ib. 1645). The entire work appeared in Fürth in 1764. Joseph also published ''novellæ'' to the treatises ''Shabbat,'' ''Ketubot,'' and ''Kiddushin'' (Sudzilkov, 1802), and the ''responsa'' which were embodied in Alfandari's ''Maggid me-Reshit'' (Constantinople, 1710). He left several commentaries in manuscript on Alfasi, on Maimonides' ''Yad ha-Chazaka,'' and on R. Nathan's ''Aruk''.
In 2008, Trani's burial site was discovered in Safed Old Jewish Cemetery, near the grave of Rabbi Moshe Alshich.<ref>See article by [http://seforim.traditiononline.org/index.cfm/2008/9/23/Shnayer-Leiman-Notes-on-Rabbinic-Epitaphs-I Shnayer Leiman]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192756/http://seforim.traditiononline.org/index.cfm/2008/9/23/Shnayer-Leiman-Notes-on-Rabbinic-Epitaphs-I |date=October 11, 2008 }}</ref> Although the Maharit died and was buried in Constantinople, his sons later transferred his remains to Safed as he had requested so that he could be interred near his father, Moshe di Trani.
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