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Pesaḥ Peter
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
German baptized Jew of the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth century. He charged that the Jews in their concluding prayer 'Alenu made a blasphemous allusion to Jesus in the words: "for they bow before vanity and emptiness [
]," since 
and 
each equals 316 in numerical value.
Bibliography:- Lipmann, Niẓẓaḥon, ed. Hackspann, Altdorf, 1644;
- Grätz, Gesch. 3d ed., 8:70-72.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Pesaḥ Peter'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/p/pesa-peter.html. 1901.