Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal was an itinerant Palestinian rabbi and preacher. He is the first rabbi known to have visited the colonies that became the United States.
Rabbi Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal
Portrait of Ezra Stiles by Samuel King. Note the Hebrew Tetragrammaton in the blue circle on the wall to the left, and a book on the shelf with the Hebrew words "Talmud B", "Ibn Ezra", and "Rashi".
Carregal's gravestone in the Nidhe Israel Cemetery
Samuel King (artist)
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Samuel King was an American painter of miniature portraits and instructor.
Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal
…in a series of entries occupying many pages, draws up a complete memoir of his career in Newport. Stiles commissioned a portrait of Carigal by artist Samuel King for Yale. Stiles describes Carregal at the March, 1773 Purim service at the Newport synagogue as…
Reverend Ezra Stiles (1770)