Solomon Petit was a 13th-century French

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who settled in

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, Palestine, where he gathered a following of mystics and instigated a new campaign against the philosophical writings of

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. When the

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of Damascus, Yishai ben Chezkiah, learned of the renewed anti-Mainmonist agitation, he threatened Petit with excommunication, which was later invoked.Yishai (Jesse) Ben Hezekiah
Joseph Jacobs & M. Seligsohn, ''Jewish Encyclopedia''. Petit ignored the threats and set off on a mission to Europe to gather signatures from German rabbis endorsing his position.

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