Menahem Recanati

Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati (named after the town of Recanati ) was a Kabbalist in Italy at the turn of the 13th and 14th century.

He was the only Italian Kabbalist of his time and wrote among other things, a mystical commentary on the Pentateuch (also translated into Latin ).

Literature (selection )

• Wininger 1925 et seq, Volume V, article Menahem ben Benjamin Racanate (sic)
• Ernst Müller, articles RECANATI, Menahem ben Benjamin, in: Jewish Encyclopedia, Berlin 1927, Vol IV / 1

• Kabbalist
• Person of Judaism (Italy )
• Author
• Italian
• Born in the 13th century
• Died in the 13th or 14th century
• Man