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Ḥamai
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Pseudonym of a cabalist belonging, according to Jellinek, to the school of Isaac the Blind. The works which bear this name are: "Sefer ha-Yiḥud," probably on the Tetragrammaton, quoted by Meïr ibn Gabbai ("'Abodat ha-Ḳodesh," 9th ed., Cracow) and Moses Cordovero ("Pardes," 65th ed., Korez); "Sefer ha-'Iyyun," on the existence and unity, of God, and followed by a mystical prayer in the style of the "Hekalot de Rabbi Neḥunya ben ha-Ḳanah," arranged in the order of the EighteenBenedictions. The "Sefer ha-'Iyyun" was published at Warsaw in 1798, among the "Liḳḳuṭim" of Hai Gaon, the end of the "Sefer ha-'Iyyun" bearing the special title "Sha'are Shamayim." A small fragment which was found embedded in R. Gamaliel's prayer ("Sefer ha-Yiḥud") was published by Jellinek.
- Jellinek, Auswahl Kabbalistischer Mystik, pp. 8 et seq.;
- idem, Bet ha-Midrash, , , note 4;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 629;
- idem, Cat. Leyden, p. 100;
- idem, Hebr. Bibl. 4:47;
- idem, Jewish Literature, pp. 111, 307, note 28a;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 437, No. 264.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Ḥamai'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/a/aamai.html. 1901.
