Hayyim Tyrer
Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer was a Hasidic rabbi and kabbalist. After he had been rabbi at five different towns, among them Mogilev, Czernowitz and Botoșani, he settled in Jerusalem.
He was the author of: "Sidduro shel Shabbat," kabbalistic homilies on Sabbatical subjects, Poryck, 1818; "Be'er Mayim Ḥayyim," on the Pentateuch, in two parts, Czernowitz, pt. i. 1820, pt. ii. 1849; "Sha'ar ha-Tefillah," kabbalistic reflections on prayer, Sudilkov, 1837; "Ereẓ ha-Ḥayyim," in two parts: a homiletic commentary on the Prophets and Hagiographa, and novellæ on the treatise Berakhot, Czernowitz, 1861. He is mentioned by Sender Margalioth in his responsa on the Shulchan Aruch, Even Ha'ezer.
He died at Jerusalem in 1813, and was buried in a cave in the Jewish cemetery of Safed.
