Jeḥiel Michel Segal Epstein (Yiddish: יחיאל מיכל סג"ל עפשטיין) was a Jewish writer and ethicist who lived in the seventeenth century.
Biography
editJehiel Michel was the son of Rabbi Abraham Segal Epstein. Jehiel Michel authored "Ḳiẓẓur Shene Luḥot ha-Berit",[1][2] also known as "Kiẓur Shelah"[3] (1683), written after the style of the kabbalistic "Shene Luḥot ha-Berit" by Isaiah Horowitz. A second edition, with numerous additions, and containing extracts from current ethical works, was published fifteen years later at Fürth. Nothing is known of his career.[4]
References
edit- ^ Samuel Joseph Fuenn (1886). הר"ר יחיאל מיכל ב"ר אברהם סג"ל עפשטיין. כנסת ישראל (in Hebrew). Warsaw. p. 526. Retrieved Aug 10, 2023.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob. "Ḳiẓẓur Shene Luḥot ha-Berit" קצור שני לוחות הברית. אוצר הספרים (in Hebrew). Vilnius. p. 535. Retrieved Aug 10, 2023.
- ^ Trachtenberg, Joshua (2004) [Originally published 1939]. "HEBREW SOURCES, PRINTED". Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 318. ISBN 9780812218626. Retrieved Aug 10, 2023.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Jehiel N. Epstein". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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