Yehiel Michel Epstein Ashkenazi
17th-century Jewish writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yehiel Michel ben Avraham Epstein Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יחיאל מיכל בן אברהם עפשטיין אשכנזי), also known as Jeḥiel Michel Segal Epstein (Hebrew: יחיאל מיכל סג"ל עפשטיין) was a Sabbatean writer and ethicist who lived in the seventeenth century.[1] He refers to himself as an Ashkenazic Jew.[2][3] He was the son-in-law of a certain rabbinical judge named "Yom-Tov Oppenheim".[4][5]
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| Religion | Judaism |
In 1683, Yehiel Michel published Ḳiẓẓur Shnei Luḥot haBrit (Hebrew: קיצור שני לחות הברית),[6][7] also known as Kitzur Shelah (Hebrew: קיצור של"ה),[8] written after the style of Isaiah Horowitz's Shnei Luḥot haBrit (1648). A second edition, with numerous additions, and containing extracts from current ethical works, was published fifteen years later at Fürth, and a third edition with even more material was published in Amsterdam.[3] Nothing is known of his career.[9] Jacob Emden publicized the Sabbatean nature of the work in Torat Kinna'ot (1752) and explicit references to Zevi were excised from subsequent editions.[1] The Kitzur Shelah is notable for introducing many mystical and liturgical traditions, always citing them, however, to manuscripts supposedly in the author's possession.
Yehiel Michel also published Yiddish works, including Derekh ha-yashar le-olam haba, and has been called a "champion of Yiddish".[10]
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