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Poggetti, Jacob (Joseph) B. Mor-Decai
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Italian Talmudist and writer on religious ethics; born at Asti, Piedmont; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His only known work is "Ḳiẓẓur Reshit Ḥokmah" (Venice, 1600; Cracow, 1667; Amsterdam, 1725; Zolkiev, 1806), an abridgment of the "Reshit Ḥokmah" of Elijah de Vidas. It is intended to teach an ascetic and ethical life.
Bibliography:- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 2:22-23;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 542, No. 42.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Poggetti, Jacob (Joseph) B. Mor-Decai'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/p/poggetti-jacob-joseph-b-mor-decai.html. 1901.