Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, born in Padua in 1707 into a well-off Jewish family, received both a Talmudic and a humanist education and wrote his first play at the age of seventeen. Around the age of twenty he announced that a maggid, a heavenly voice, was dictating revelations to him, which led the rabbis of Italy to threaten him with excommunication and to force him to stop writing on the Kabbalah. He left Italy in 1735 for Amsterdam, where he published the treatise on ethics that made him famous, reached the land of Israel in 1743 and died of the plague in Acre, with his family, in 1746.

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• Theatreלישרים תהילהMoshe Chaim Luzzatto · 1743not translated into EnglishLiterature