Igroth HaRaMa”Z [epistolography - collected letters].

ZACUTO, MOSHE.

Castilo & Sa’adon

Livorno

1780

Vinograd, Livorno 156.

Accompanied by Eleph Ha’Alephin, a poem comprising of 1,000 words all beginning with the letter Aleph. Born in Amsterdam in 1625, Kabbalist R. Moses Zacuto, also known as the “ReMeZ,” was a student of R. Saul Levi Morteira and fellow student of Baruch Spinoza. He studied kabbala with Benjamin HaLevi, a student of R. Chaim Vital. He later traveled to Posen to further his Talmud learning. Although intending to make a pilgrimage to Palestine, instead Zacuto accepted a rabbinical post in Venice, and in 1673, was appointed rabbi of Mantua where he remained until his death in 1697.