Yehiel Michel ben Avraham Epstein Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יחיאל מיכל בן אברהם עפשטיין אשכנזי), also known as Jeḥiel Michel Segal Epstein (Hebrew: יחיאל מיכל סג"ל עפשטיין) was a Sabbatean writer and ethicist who lived in the seventeenth century.
In 1683, Yehiel Michel published Ḳiẓẓur Shnei Luḥot haBrit (Hebrew: קיצור שני לחות הברית), also known as Kitzur Shelah (Hebrew: קיצור של"ה), written after the style of Isaiah Horowitz's Shnei Luḥot haBrit (1648). 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. Jacob Emden publicized the Sabbatean nature of the work in Torat Kinna'ot (1752) and explicit references to Zevi were excised from subsequent editions. The Kitzur Shelah is notable for introducing many mystical and liturgical traditions, always citing them, however, to manuscripts supposedly in the author's possession.
References
- ^ Says, Ibtdpdecz (2006-11-01). "Kitzur Shelah, Sabbatianism, and the Importance of Owning Old Books – The Seforim Blog". Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- 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) . "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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