Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989), born in Izmir, Turkey, was a rabbi, author, and compiler of siddurim and maḥzorim in Spanish and Portuguese. We know little about his life and career save that he served the Congregation Bené Herzl and Temple Bet-El in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before arriving in the United States where he began his tenure in the early 1970s with the Cuban Sephardic Hebrew Congregation in Miami, Florida. If you know more, or can provide a reference to an article or book providing additional information, please contact us.
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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed
מַחֲזוֹר לְיוֹם כִּפּוּר Majzor leYom Kipur (Mexico: 1972) is the second edition of a bilingual Hebrew-Spanish nusaḥ Sefaradi Yom Kippur prayerbook compiled and translated by Rabbi Meir Matsliaḥ Melamed (1920-1989), first published in 1968. (This “second edition” appears to be more of a “second printing” than an update or revision of the first edition.) As no Hebrew type with vocalization and cantillation marks was available to Rabbi Melamed at the time, liturgy was reproduced from images of older siddurim. Rabbi Melamed’s translation appears to the sides of these images and his commentary underneath. . . .