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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.

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

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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