Akiba ben Judah Loeb was a German
rabbi
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, who lived in
Lehren-Steinsfeld
Lehrensteinsfeld is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany
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,
Württemberg
Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart.
Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Würt ...
, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote ''Ha-Ohel 'Olam'' (''Everlasting Tent''), containing