Jehiel Michel Epstein (17th century)

Jeḥiel Michel Segal Epstein (Yiddish: יחיאל מיכל סג"ל עפשטיין) was a Jewish writer and ethicist who lived in the seventeenth century.

Not to be confused with Jehiel Michal Epstein.

Biography

Jehiel Michel was the son of Rabbi Abraham Segal Epstein. Jehiel Michel authored "Ḳiẓẓur Shene Luḥot ha-Berit",[1][2] also known as "Kiẓur Shelah"[3] (1683), written after the style of the kabbalistic "Shene Luḥot ha-Berit" by Isaiah Horowitz. 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.[4]

References
  1. 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)
  2. Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob. "Ḳiẓẓur Shene Luḥot ha-Berit" קצור שני לוחות הברית. אוצר הספרים (in Hebrew). Vilnius. p. 535. Retrieved Aug 10, 2023.
  3. Trachtenberg, Joshua (2004) [Originally published 1939]. "HEBREW SOURCES, PRINTED". Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 318. ISBN 9780812218626. Retrieved Aug 10, 2023.
  4.  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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