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==References == | <p> the great modern [[Jewish]] mystic of Italy, was born at Padua in 1707, and enjoyed the highest educational advantages the country of his birth could afford. WVhen a youth of only twenty, his extended studies in [[Hebrew]] literature, especially the cabalistic writings, secured for him a universal reputation. Had he known how to avoid mysticism, he might have proved one of the greatest ornaments of Judaism, but the [[Cabala]] (q.v.) led him astray, and he not only compiled a second [[Zohar]] (q.v.), but actually came to believe himself the predicted [[Messiah]] of his people. He was excommunicated, andi obliged to quit Italy. For a time he flourished in Amsterdam, and about 1744 he removed to the [[Holy]] Land. He died shortly after, at Safet, in May 1747, and was buried at Tiberias. Of his multifarious works twenty-four are yet unedited; twenty-eight have been published, comprising treatises in theology, dogmatic and cabalistical, philosophy, morals, and rhetoric, and a body of poetry, devotional, lyrical, and dramatic. His most important writings are cited in Etheridge, Introd. to Hebrews Literature, page 393. See also Griltz, Geschischte d. Juden, 10:369-383; and his biography in Kerem Chemed (1838), 3:113 sq. (J.H.W.) </p> | ||
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