Rabbi Eliyahu HaKohen of Izmir—the Shevet Musar רבי אליהו הכהן מאיזמיר — שבט מוסר

The sources give no year of his birth; it is known that he was a judge and preacher in Izmir at the end of the seventeenth century and in the first decades of the eighteenth—the window is set by his books. The city had not yet cooled after Shabbetai Tzvi, and his sermons called to the simple things: fasting, charity and repentance.

The Shevet Musar, "The Rod of Instruction", came out at Constantinople in 1712: fifty-two chapters, one for each week of the year, on sin and requital, on death and judgment, on charity and a good name—written so that anyone could understand. The book spread across all Jewry and was translated into Yiddish and Ladino; in Poland and Lithuania it was read no less than in Turkey. The Midrash Talpiot is a collection of aggadah and commentary by alphabet of themes; the Me'il Tzedakah is on charity.

He died in Izmir in 1729.