Behr Shmuel Issachar Leyb ben Judah Moses Eybeschuetz Perlhefter (c. 1650 in

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– after 1713 in Prague) was a Jewish scholar and

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. His educated wife Bella bat R. Jakob Perlhefter (Isabell, Bella, Bilah, died 1710 in

), corresponded in Hebrew and wrote the preface on the Yiddish book “Beer Sheva”. Perlhefter taught the German

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Johann Christoph Wagenseil Johann Christoph Wagenseil (26 November 1633 - 9 October 1705) was a German historian, Orientalist, jurist and Christian Hebraist. Life and career Wagenseil was born in Nuremberg on 26 November 1633. As a youth he was educated at Stockholm, Gr ...

Hebrew and Jewish literature. Beer Perlhefter is considered an important figure of the Sabbatian movement. After the death of the pseudo-Messiah

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(1626-1676), he restored the Sabbatian theology at the school of

Abraham Rovigo Abraham Rovigo (born ca. 1650 in Modena, died 1713 in Mantua) was a Jewish scholar, rabbi and kabbalist. Biography Rovigo studied in Venice in the ''yeshiva'' of Moses Zacuto and devoted himself to study the Kabbalah. He was one of the main sup ...

and called the Pseudomessiah

Mordecai Mokiach Mordecai Mokiach (Eisenstadt, also Mordechai Ben Hayyim of Eisenstadt) (c. 1650 in Alsace – May 18, 1729 in Pressburg) was a Jews, Jewish Sabbateans, Sabbatean prophet and List of messiah claimants, Messiah claimant. The death of Sabbatai Zevi ( ...

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* Tishby, Yeshaya: The First Sabbatean Maggid in the Study Hall of R. Abraham Rovigo, Zion 1 (1957), pp. 21–55, (Hebrew). * Riemer, Nathanael: Zwischen Tradition und Häresie. ´Beer Sheva` – eine Enzyklopädie des jüdischen Wissens der Frühen Neuzeit. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010 (German). * Rachel L Greenblatt
´My Happiness Overturned`. Mourning, Memory and a Woman's Writing in ´Book of Seven Springs`
Lecture on the Early Modern Workshop. Volume 8: Egodocuments: Revelation of the Self in the Early Modern Period, 2011, University of Texas at Austin, August 21–23 (English). * * Elqayam, Avraham: The Rebirth of the Messiah: New Discovery of R. Issachar Baer Perlhefter", Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Text, 1 (1996), pp. 85–166 (Hebrew). 1650 births 1713 deaths Rabbis from Prague 17th-century Bohemian rabbis 18th-century Bohemian rabbis Sabbateans Kabbalists {{Judaism-bio-stub