JOSEPH MOSES BEN JEKUTHIEL ZALMAN
- JOSEPH MOSES BEN JEKUTHIEL ZALMAN
- JOSEPH MOSES BEN JEKUTHIEL ZALMAN (d. 1781), rabbi and
kabbalist. At first he served as rabbi in Drohiczyn (near Pinsk),
subsequently in Pinsk itself, and from 1746 in Sambor (Galicia). In his
old age he migrated to Ereẓ Israel and died in Safed. He was the author
of Maggid Mishneh, a commentary on Mafte'aḥ
ha-Olamot, the first part of Mishnat Ḥasidim, the
kabbalistic treatise of Immanuel Ḥai Ricchi\>\> (printed with the
text, Zolkiew, 1745); Kiryat Arba, a kabbalistic commentary
to the Shema, together with a supplement to his Maggid
Mishneh and Ḥillukei de-Rabbanan, talmudic novellae
(ibid., 1768). His Hokhmat ha-Tekhunah, a
commentary on the astronomical portions of Maimonides' Code, was
published in the introduction to the Toledot Avraham of
Abraham b. Isaac Eisenberg (1881), while his Mareh Ofannim on
astronomy and the calculation of the new moon has remained in
manuscript, as has his Mirkevet ha-Mishneh, talmudic
novellae.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
S. Wiener, Kohelet Moshe (1893–1918), 505, no. 4183; B.
Wachstein, Mafte'aḥ ha-Hespedim, 1 (1922), 25; A. Yaari,
Meḥkerei Sefer (1958),
454.
(Encyclopaedia Judaica (Germany)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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