Moses ben Menahem (Präger) () was a rabbi and kabbalist who lived in Prague in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
He was a disciple of Rabbi David Oppenheim.
Works
"Wa-Yaḳhel Mosheh" (Hebrew: ), kabbalistic treatises on various passages of the Zohar, with a double commentary ("Masweh Mosheh" (Hebrew: ) and "Tiḳḳune ha-Parẓufim" (Hebrew: ); Dessau, 1699; Zolkiev, 1741-1775); "Zera' Ḳodesh" (Hebrew: ), on asceticism in a kabbalistic sense (to this is appended the story of a young man in Nikolsburg who was possessed by an evil spirit, which Moses ben Menahem drove out [Fürth, 1696 and, with this story omitted, 1712]). This story was published in Amsterdam, in 1696, in Judæo-German. Another edition of "Zera'Ḳodesh," with the "Bat Melek" (Hebrew: ) of Simeon ben David Abiob, was published in Venice in 1712.Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography: Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii. 29, No. 20, Warsaw, 1876; Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. p. 89, 149, 163; Fürst, ii. 399-400; Steinschneider, cols. 1945, 2598; Wolf, iii. 791-792.
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