ABRAHAM BEN JEHIEL MICHAL HA-KOHEN
- ABRAHAM BEN JEHIEL MICHAL HA-KOHEN
- ABRAHAM BEN JEHIEL MICHAL HA-KOHEN of Lask, Poland (d. c.
1800), kabbalist and rabbinical emissary. Abraham was renowned for his
asceticism, fasting during the week and eating only on the Sabbath. He
settled in Jerusalem shortly after 1770. Ten years later he returned to
Europe as an emissary to collect funds on behalf of the rabbis of
Jerusalem, and was then involved in a number of disputes with them
regarding these collections. He traveled extensively and is known to
have been in Nice for four years, in Ferrara (where he met Graziadio
Neppi), Glogau, Berlin, and Warsaw. Wherever he went, he exhorted the
Jewish community to repentance and good deeds and encouraged more
intensive communal activity, including the building of synagogues. On
his return to Jerusalem (1790) he was arrested and held ransom for the
failure of the Jewish community to pay taxes. He died in prison,
probably as a result of maltreatment. The best known of his kabbalistic
works are Ve-Ḥashav lo ha-Kohen (1884), Ve-Shav
ha-Kohen (Leghorn, 1788), Beit Ya'akov (Leghorn, 1792),
Ayin Panim ba-Torah (Warsaw, 1797).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Yaari, Sheluḥei, 550, 553–6.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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