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Heilprin, Joel ben Uri

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Galician thaumaturge; lived at Satanow in the first half of the eighteenth century. Possessed of a fair knowledge of medicine and physics, he pretended to effect cures and perform miracles by means of the Cabala and the Holy Name. In 1720 he published anonymously a work entitled "Toledot Adam," describing various remedies attributed to prominent cabalists. The preface of the work constitutes a continuous panegyric of Heil-prin and his miracles. Heilprin had many pupils, who, on the death of their master, formed a band of charlatans who shamelessly exploited the credulity of their contemporaries.

Bibliography:
  • K. P. Moritz, Salomon Maimon's Lebensgesch. 1:217;
  • Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 433;
  • Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Heilprin, Joel ben Uri'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​h/heilprin-joel-ben-uri.html. 1901.
 
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