Conversations-Lexicon,1842r.

Conversations-Lexicon,1842r. - Rirchhof

Collection of prayers for Tikkun Hazot (midnight prayers) and for other kabbalistic rituals of the Lurianic school. R. Nathan Nata Hannover (d. 1683) was a preacher, kabbalist, lexicographer, and chronicler. During the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648, he had to leave his birthplace in Volhynia to wander through Poland, Germany, and Holland for several years. His sermons, delivered during those years of wandering, were compiled into a book covering the entire Pentateuch. In 1653 he went to Italy. In the same year in Venice, he published Yeven Mezulah ("Miry Pit"), dealing with the Chmielnicki persecutions. He associated with the great kabbalists of the period: R. Samuel Aboab and R. Moses Zacuto, R. Hayyim Cohen, R. Nathan Shapira, and R. Benjamin ha-Levi of Safed. He studied the Kabbalah doctrines of the school of R. Isaac Luria for a number of years.