 50), Kirimi was a proselyte and a student of Aaron ben Joseph the Karaite.He derived his name from his native town of Qırım or Solhat (today's Stary Krym), in Crimea.Kirimi was the author of "Sefat Emet" (not to be confused with the book of the same name by Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847-1905) of Gora Kalwaria, Poland), a commentary on the Pentateuch, in which he tries to refute the interpretations of the Karaites when they are in contradiction to those of the Rabbinites.