JEHIEL MICHAEL (Michel) BEN ELIEZER

JEHIEL MICHAEL (Michel) BEN ELIEZER
JEHIEL MICHAEL ("Michel") BEN ELIEZER (d. 1648), rabbi and kabbalist, who lived in Nemirov (the Ukraine). Jehiel's cousin Isaac praised his talmudic and kabbalistic knowledge as well as his mastery of secular sciences (introduction to Shivrei Luḥot). Jehiel at first regarded the chmielnicki persecutions as a presage of the coming messianic era. As the Cossacks came nearer to his community he exhorted its members to stay firm in their faith. During the massacre at Nemirov he and his mother were dragged to the Jewish cemetery and murdered there on the 22nd (according to others the 20th) of Sivan (1648). Jehiel's martyrdom is mentioned in the elegies composed by shabbetai b. meir ha-kohen and Yom   tov lipmann heller in memory of the 1648 persecutions. Jehiel was the author of a work on the Al-Tikrei interpretations of the Talmud. A large part of the manuscript has been lost; the remaining fragment was published by his nephew as Shivrei Luḥot (Lublin, 1680). Part of his commentary on the Pentateuch and Al-Tikrei interpretations were republished together with the commentary Amarot Tehorot by Ḥayyim Selig Goldschlag (Warsaw, 1911). Jehiel is also mentioned in Korban Shabbat (Dyhrenfuerth, 1691, 10b–11a) by Bezalel b. Solomon of Kobrin. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Gurland, Le-Korot ha-Gezerot al-Yisrael, 2 (1888), 13–14; 5 (1650), 30–31; 7 (1892), 32; Graetz, Gesch, 10 (18963), 64; Fuenn, Keneset, 526; S. Bernfeld, Sefer ha-Dema'ot, 3 (1926), 117, 169f., 177, 204. (Samuel Abba Horodezky)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • List of rabbis — This is a list of prominent rabbis. Rabbis are Judaism s spiritual and religious leaders. See also : List of Jews.Rabbis: Pre Mishnaic ( Tannaim ): See Mishnah, Tannaim .* Shimon Hatzadik * Antigonus of SokhoRabbis: Pre Mishnaic ( Tannaim ) (… …   Wikipedia

  • Rabbinic literature — See also: Rabbinic Judaism and Oral Torah Part of a series of articles on Jews and Judaism …   Wikipedia

  • Mizrahi Jews — For the Religious Zionist Movement and other entities and people named Mizrachi , please see Mizrachi (disambiguation) Mizrahi Jews …   Wikipedia

  • List of German Jews — The Jewish presence in Germany is older than Christianity; the first Jewish population came with the Romans to the city Cologne. A Golden Age in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”