Chajath, Jehudah

Chajath, Jehudah a Jewish writer of the 16th century, who had to leave Spain in 1493, was a famous cabalist, and is the author of a cabalistic commentary entitled The Divine Order,or מנחת יהודה (Ferrara, 1558). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1, 156; Ginsburg, The Kabbalah, p. 123; Gratz, Gesch. d. Juden, 8:229. (B.P.)