Moses ben Menahem (Präger) () was a
rabbi
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and
kabbalist who lived in
Prague
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in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
[
He was a disciple of Rabbi David Oppenheim.][
]
Works
*"''Wa-Yaḳhel Mosheh''" (Hebrew: ), kabbalistic treatises on various passages of the Zohar
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, with a double commentary ("''Masweh Mosheh''" (Hebrew: ) and "''Tiḳḳune ha-Parẓufim''" (Hebrew: ); Dessau
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, 1699; Zolkiev
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History
A village named ''Vynnyky'' was men ...
, 1741-1775);
*"''Zera' Ḳodesh''" (Hebrew: ), on asceticism in a kabbalistic sense (to this is appended the story of a young man in Nikolsburg
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who was possessed
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Possession
* Possession (disambiguation), having some degree of control over something else
** Spirit possession, whereby gods, demons, animas, or other disincarnate entities may temporarily take control of a human body
*** ...
by an evil spirit
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Evil is commonly seen as the opposite, or sometimes absence, of good. It can be an extremely ...
, which Moses ben Menahem drove out /nowiki>Fürth, 1696
''Jewish Encyclopedia'' bibliography:
* Azulai, ''Shem ha-Gedolim'', ii. 29, No. 20, Warsaw, 1876;
*Benjacob
Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob (10 January 1801, Ramygala – 2 July 1863, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian Jewish maskil, best known as a bibliographer, author, and publisher. His 17-volume Hebrew Bible included Rashi, Moses Mendelssohn, as well as his own ...
, ''Oẓar ha-Sefarim'', pp
p. 89149163
*Fürst
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, ' ii
399
400;
*Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider (; 30 March 1816 – 24 January 1907) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist, and an important figure in Jewish studies and Jewish history. He is credited as having invented the term ''antisemitism.''
Education
Mo ...
, ' cols
19452598
*Wolf
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, ' iii. 791-792.
References
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17th-century rabbis from Bohemia
18th-century rabbis from Bohemia
Rabbis from Prague
Authors of Kabbalistic works
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