German Talmudic scholar; born at Posen; died at Ottensee, near Hamburg, 1699. He wrote the following works: "Masoret ha-Berit" (The Bond of the Covenant), a homiletic commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Scrolls, edited by his son MeÏr b. David (Hamburg, 1715); "Sha'are Ẓiyyon" (The Gates of Zion), a book of ethics and homiletics divided into thirteen chapters, taken from the "Sefer Ḥasidim" and other works.
Bibliography:
- Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1:398; 3:187,280;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 857;
- idem, Jewish Literature, p. 234;
- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 218;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3:418.
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