Behr Perlhefter

Beer Shmuel Issachar ben Judah ben Moses body Eybeschuetz Perlhefter (* around 1650 in Prague; † after 1713 probably in Prague) was a Jewish scholar and rabbi who Johann Christoph Wagenseil taught in Hebrew and Jewish literature. As one of the leaders of Sabbatian movement in northern Italy and students of the Kabbalist Abraham Rovigo ( † 1714), he tried to overcome the crisis of this messianic flow after the death of Shabbetaj Zvi.

His father was Rabbi Yehuda Loev and chairman of the court house of the Jewish community of Teplice (Bohemia ). Later he fled because of military conflicts to Prague, where he was a rabbi or Rabbinatsbeisitzer. There was probably some years after 1646, Beer Perlhefter born. When marrying Bella Perlhefter, the daughter of a Prague commune, which took place before 1670, Beer took to intra- Jewish name extension of his father. After working as Rabbinatsassesor in the Ashkenazi community of Hamburg -Wandsbek he moved with his family to Central Franconia and worked as a teacher of Hebrew and Jewish literature at Johann Christoph Wagenseil. In 1676 he was invited by the Shabbateans Abraham Rovigo to Modena and taught there in the house of study. Here he became one of the respected scholars of central Italy. After six years in Modena, he returned to the Middle Franconian area.