Michael Balbo
Michael Balbo | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | Michael ben Shabbetai Cohen Balbo 27 March 1411 |
| Died | After 1484[2] |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
Michael ben Shabbetai Cohen Balbo (Hebrew: מיכאל בן שבתאי כהן בלבו; 27 March 1411 – after 1484) was a Cretan rabbi, Kabbalist, and Hebrew poet. He came from a prominent rabbinic family,[3][4] the son of Shabbetai ben Isaiah Balbo, who wrote works of philosophy, Kabbalah, and Biblical commentary.[5]
A manuscript preserved in the Vatican Library contains several works of his, namely: a poem composed in 1453 on the occasion of the Fall of Constantinople and the cessation of the war; a poem lamenting his father's death (1456); a homiletic commentary on Psalm 28; and three sermons preached by Balbo in Khania in 1471, 1475, and 1477 respectively.[2] Another manuscript contains an account of a disputation (vikuaḥ) between Balbo and Moses Ashkenazi on gilgul.[6]
A work entitled Sha'are raḥamim, which is a supercommentary on Maimonides' commentary on the eleventh chapter of Sanhedrin, and a commentary on Ibn Ezra's hymn beginning Eḥad levado be-en samuk, both bear the name of Michael Cohen as author, who is supposed by Moritz Steinschneider to be identical with Balbo.[7]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Vat. ebr. 254 at the Vatican Library
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