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Rabbi Shmuel (Samuel) Nissim (1840-1916) was the head of the rabbinical court of the Sephardi community in Jerusalem, one of the rabbis of the community and one of the founders and directors of Misgav Ladach Hospital.

He was born in 1840 (1810) to Rivka and to Rabbi Eliyahu Ya'akov Nissim.

In 1897 he was elected to serve as a member of the Sephardic Council in Jerusalem. Later he served as a member of the rabbinical court of the community in Jerusalem, and in 1900 he was appointed as the 'Head of the Beit Din' (Av Beit Din), and directed the courts of Rabbi Shalom Hadaya, Rabbi Avraham Gagin and Rabbi Avraham Bejaju.

He served as a gabbai at the Misgav Ladach Hospital in Jerusalem and was one of its managers and founders in the 1880s, alongside Rabbi Mordechai Israel and Rabbi Gavriel Shabtai. For 28 years he served as a gabbai of charity for the Sephardim in Jerusalem.

In 1906, he was again elected to serve as a member of the Sephardic Committee alongside Rabbi Nachman Batito, Rabbi Haim Moshe Elyashar and Rabbi Ya'akov Meir. In this year, when the last sage Bashi died, Rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar, Rabbi Shmuel Nissim eulogized him at his bedside outside the rabbi's house on the way to the Mount of Olives. After the Rishon LeZion death, Rabbi Shmuel was asked to take his place but did not want to, and in 1907 Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe Panyzil was appointed to Rishon LeZion. Rabbi Shmuel Nisssim also eulogized Rabbi Haim Hizkiyahu Medini in the synagogue in the courtyard of Misgav Ladach.

For 40 years he worked in the religious rabbinate and served as a community leader for the Sephardic community. He was especially prominent in distributing food to the poor of Jerusalem, served as the director and head of food to the poor people of Jerusalem institute.

He died on July 1, 1916, and was buried in the Burak section of the Sephardim on the Mount of Olives, leaving behind a book of handwritten works, and some of his lessons were printed in the anthology edited by Rabbi Ben Zion Avraham Cuenca and several other Rabbis.

Personal life Married to Leah, and together they had two sons: Rabbi Ya'akov Hai Bechor Nissim and Eliyahu Nissim. Later he married Tamar, and they had two other children: Mordechai Nissim and Moshe Nissim.