Reuben Hoshke Ha
Kohen (Sofer) (
Hebrew: אברהם ראובן הכהן סופר; died 3 April 1673) was a
Kabalist and rabbi of
Prague. "Hoshke," his father's name, is a
Polish diminutive for "Joshua," mistaken by
G.B. De Rossi[1] and
Zunz[2] for his family name.
He wrote:
Yalḳuṭ Re'ubeni, a
kabbalistic work (an imitation of the Yalḳuṭ Ḥadash) containing a collection of sayings taken from other kabbalistic works and arranged in alphabetical order (Prague, 1660)
Yalḳuṭ Re'ubeni ha-Gadol, (ילקוט ראובני הגדול) a kabbalistic
midrash on the
Pentateuch arranged according to the order of the
parashiyyot (Wilmersdorf, 1681)
Davar Shebi-Ḳedushah, a manual of
asceticism and repentance (Sulzbach, 1684)
Oneg Shabbat, cabalistic reflections on the
Sabbath laws, followed by an appendix entitled Derek Ḳabbalat Shabbat (ib. 1684).