Behr Shmuel Issachar Leyb ben Judah Moses Eybeschuetz Perlhefter (c. 1650 in
Prague – after 1713 in Prague) was a Jewish scholar and
rabbi. His educated wife
Bella bat R. Jakob Perlhefter (Isabell, Bella, Bilah, died 1710 in
Prague), corresponded in Hebrew and wrote the preface on the Yiddish book “Beer Sheva”. Perlhefter taught the German
Christian HebraistJohann Christoph Wagenseil Hebrew and Jewish literature. Beer Perlhefter is considered an important figure of the
Sabbatian movement. After the death of the pseudo-Messiah
Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), he restored the Sabbatian theology at the school of
Abraham Rovigo and called the Pseudomessiah
Mordecai Mokiach to
Italy.
External links
Tishby, Yeshaya: The First Sabbatean Maggid in the Study Hall of R. Abraham Rovigo, Zion 1 (1957), pp. 21–55, (Hebrew).
Riemer, Nathanael: Zwischen Tradition und Häresie. ´Beer Sheva` – eine Enzyklopädie des jüdischen Wissens der Frühen Neuzeit. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010 (German).
Elqayam, Avraham: The Rebirth of the Messiah: New Discovery of R. Issachar Baer Perlhefter", Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Text, 1 (1996), pp. 85–166 (Hebrew).