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1Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin — (ca. 1660–ca. 1746) was a Lithuanian rabbi, kabalist, and chronicler. He was a descendant of Solomon Luria, and traced his genealogy back through Rashi to the tanna Johanan ha Sandlar. He was rabbi of Glusk, government of Minsk, until 1711, when… …
2HEILPRIN, JEHIEL BEN SOLOMON — (1660–1746), Lithuanian talmudic scholar and historian. Heilprin, the son of the rabbi of Sokolov, studied Kabbalah and, according to legend, performed miracles. He served as rabbi first in Glussk (Bobruisk district), where his compilation of… …
3NOTARIKON — (Gr. νοταρικόν; Lat. notaricum, from notarius, shorthand writer ), a system of abbreviations by either shortening the words or by writing only one letter of each word. This method is used in interpreting the Pentateuch and is the 30th of the 32 …
4ZACUTO, MOSES BEN MORDECAI — (c. 1620–1697), kabbalist and poet. Zacuto, who was born into a Portuguese Marrano family in Amsterdam, studied Jewish subjects under saul levi morteira (an elegy on the latter s death by Zacuto was published by D. Kaufmann in REJ, 37 (1898),… …
