Moses ben Menahem

Moses ben Menahem (Präger) (Hebrew: משה בן מנחם) was a rabbi and kabbalist who lived in Prague in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.^[1]

He was a disciple of Rabbi David Oppenheim.^[1]

Works[edit]

"Wa-Yaḳhel Mosheh" (Hebrew: ויקהל משה), kabbalistic treatises on various passages of the Zohar, with a double commentary ("Masweh Mosheh" (Hebrew: מסוה משה) and "Tiḳḳune ha-Parẓufim" (Hebrew: תיקוני הפרצופים); Dessau, 1699;^[2] Zolkiev, 1741^[3]-1775^[4]);
"Zera' Ḳodesh" (Hebrew: זרע קודש), on asceticism in a kabbalistic 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^[5] 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" (Hebrew: בת מלך) of Simeon ben David Abiob, was published in Venice in 1712.^[1]

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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gotthard Deutsch and S. Mannheimer (1901–1906). "MOSES BEN MENAHEM (PRÄGER)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography:
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii. 29, No. 20, Warsaw, 1876;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. p. 89, 149, 163;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 399-400;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 1945, 2598;
- Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. iii. 791-792.
^ ויקהל משה (in Hebrew). Dessau. 1699. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
^ Vayakhel Moshe ויקהל משה (in Hebrew). Zolkow. 1741. OCLC 233215004. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
^ ויקהל משה (in Hebrew). Zolkiev. 1775. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
^ Trachtenberg, Joshua (2004) [Originally published 1939]. "HEBREW SOURCES, PRINTED". Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 319. ISBN 9780812218626. Retrieved May 12, 2023.