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Moses ben Menahem (Präger)

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Cabalist of Prague; disciple of R. David Oppenheim; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote: "Wa-Yaḳhel Mosheh," cabalistic treatises on various passages of the Zohar, with a double commentary ("Masweh Mosheh" and "Tiḳḳune ha-Parẓufim"; Dessau, 1699; Zolkiev, 1741-75); "Zera' Ḳodesh," on asceticism in a cabalistic sense (to this is appended the story of a young man in Nikolsburg who was possessed by an evil spirit, which Moses ben Menahem drove out [Fürth, 1696 and, with this story omitted, 1712]). This story was published in Amsterdam, in 1696, in Judæo-German. Another edition of "Zera'Ḳodesh," with the "Bat Melek" of Simeon ben David Abiob, was published in Venice in 1712.

Bibliography:
  • Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, 2:29, No. 20, Warsaw, 1876;
  • Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. 89, 149, 163;
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 2:399-400;
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 1945, 2598;
  • Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 3:791-792.
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Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Moses ben Menahem (Präger)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​m/moses-ben-menahem-prger.html. 1901.
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