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Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a Jewish mystic, philosopher and Talmudic scholar, and a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia (both in present-day Czech Republic).

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“1988 [Harper & Row], Howard Schwartz, Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural, 1991, Oxford University Press⟳, Paperback Edition, page 145, Now during the days preceding the time of Mordecai's Bar Mitzvah, Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, known as the Maharal, had a series of dreams that had come⟳ to haunt him. In the first dream⟳ the Maharal found a letter nailed to his front door, like⟳ a proclamation, that stated that the life of the boy Mordecai, whose soul could bring⟳ great blessing to the Jewish people, hung in the balance, and that only the Maharal could save⟳ him.”

“1995 [Yale University Press⟳], David B. Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe, 2001, Wayne State University Press⟳, Paperback Edition, page 65, Two other studies of the Maharal take⟳ Ben Sasson's position. The first is Aharon Kleinberger's extensive comparison of the Maharal’s pedagogic views with those of the Bohemian reformer J. A. Comenius.”

“It would appear⟳ that this remark⟳ does not do justice to the place⟳ of the Kabbalah in the writings of the Maharal.”

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