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3 unusual facts about Jacob Obermeyer


Jacob Obermeyer

His intellectual and spiritual forming included men such as Chacham Bernajs R. Jacob, rabbi Jacob Ettlinger and rabbi Seligman Bamberger.

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Obermeyer accompanied him first to Kaswin and then to Tehran, where he replaced the teacher in the house of the Persian prince.

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While in Baghdad Obermeyer clashed with the young Kabbalist Yosef Hayyim and was excommunicated, his cherem being read in all the synagogues in Baghdad.



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