Moses ben Menahem explained

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;^[1] Zolkiev, 1741^[2] -1775^[3]);
• "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^[4] 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.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: he:ויקהל משה. https://hebrewbooks.org/19632. he. Dessau. 1699. May 12, 2023.
2. Book: Vayakhel Moshe. he:ויקהל משה. he. Zolkow. 1741. 233215004. May 12, 2023.
3. Book: he: ויקהל משה. https://hebrewbooks.org/45413. he. Zolkiev. 1775. May 12, 2023.
4. Book: Trachtenberg, Joshua. Joshua Trachtenberg. HEBREW SOURCES, PRINTED. https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/jms/jms40.htm#page_321. Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Originally published 1939. 9780812218626. 319. May 12, 2023.
5. 
   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.