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<li><b>Dates</b> –&#160;1663-1711</li>
 
<li><b>Dates</b> –&#160;1663-1711</li>
 
<li><b>Location</b> –&#160;R. Moshe was born in Trieste, Italy and was active in Venice.</li>
 
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<li><b>Occupation</b> – Worked as a private tutor, with knowledge in philosophy, mathematics, and the natural sciences. R. Moshe's expertise in these areas significantly impacted his biblical commentary.<fn>R. Moshe also, however, expressed a significant skepticism towards philosophy. See the first several entries in the index to philosophical topics published at the beginning of Melekhet Machashevet.</fn></li>
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<li><b>Occupation</b> – Worked as a private tutor, with knowledge in philosophy, mathematics, and the natural sciences. R. Moshe's expertise in these areas significantly impacted his biblical commentary.<fn>R. Moshe also, however, expressed a significant skepticism towards philosophy. See the first several entries in the index to philosophical topics published at the beginning of Melekhet Machshevet.</fn></li>
 
<li><b>Family</b> –&#160;The Gentili family was a prominent Italian family with members in Gorizia, Trieste, Verona, and Venice. R. Moshe's son, R. Gershom, though he lived only to the age of seventeen, composed a work of rules for Hebrew poetry.<fn>The work was named Yad Haruzim, and also contained a poetical listing of the 613 commandments.</fn></li>
 
<li><b>Family</b> –&#160;The Gentili family was a prominent Italian family with members in Gorizia, Trieste, Verona, and Venice. R. Moshe's son, R. Gershom, though he lived only to the age of seventeen, composed a work of rules for Hebrew poetry.<fn>The work was named Yad Haruzim, and also contained a poetical listing of the 613 commandments.</fn></li>
 
<li><b>Teachers</b> –&#160;Shelomo b. Yitzchak Nizza</li>
 
<li><b>Teachers</b> –&#160;Shelomo b. Yitzchak Nizza</li>
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<li><b>Biblical commentaries</b> –&#160;Melekhet Machashevet<fn>A homiletical-philosophical Torah commentary. Originally published in Venice, 1710, the work was reprinted in Koenigsberg, 1859, with an approbation from R. Y.Z. Mecklenburg. The publisher, R. Yehudah Leib Yaffo, considered the work especially relevant to the mid-19th century struggle to defend traditional Judaism against Reform. He sees Melekhet Machashevet as a peshat commentary that also shows how statements of the Talmudic Rabbis are in consonance with philosophy and science (see publisher's preface to the 1859 edition). Melekhet Machashevet includes an extremely extensive index of philosophical notions and topics that appear in the commentary, revealing the importance the author ascribed to such issues.</fn></li>
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<li><b>Biblical commentaries</b> –&#160;Melekhet Machshevet<fn>A homiletical-philosophical Torah commentary. Originally published in Venice, 1710, the work was reprinted in Koenigsberg, 1859, with an approbation from R. Y.Z. Mecklenburg. The publisher, R. Yehudah Leib Yaffo, considered the work especially relevant to the mid-19th century struggle to defend traditional Judaism against Reform. He sees Melekhet Machshevet as a peshat commentary that also shows how statements of the Talmudic Rabbis are in consonance with philosophy and science (see publisher's preface to the 1859 edition). Melekhet Machshevet includes an extremely extensive index of philosophical notions and topics that appear in the commentary, revealing the importance the author ascribed to such issues.</fn></li>
 
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<li><b>Rabbinics</b> –&#160;
 
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R. Moshe Hefetz – Intellectual Profile

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R. Moshe Hefetz
R. Moshe Hefetz
Name
R. Moshe Hefetz
ר' משה בן גרשום חפץ
Dates1663-1711
LocationItaly
WorksMelekhet Machshevet, Chanukkat HaBayit
Exegetical Characteristics
Influenced by
Impacted on

Background1

Life

  • Name – 
    • Hebrew name – ר' משה בן גרשום חפץ
    • Italian family name – Gentili2
  • Dates – 1663-1711
  • Location – R. Moshe was born in Trieste, Italy and was active in Venice.
  • Occupation – Worked as a private tutor, with knowledge in philosophy, mathematics, and the natural sciences. R. Moshe's expertise in these areas significantly impacted his biblical commentary.3
  • Family – The Gentili family was a prominent Italian family with members in Gorizia, Trieste, Verona, and Venice. R. Moshe's son, R. Gershom, though he lived only to the age of seventeen, composed a work of rules for Hebrew poetry.4
  • Teachers – Shelomo b. Yitzchak Nizza
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  • Notable events

Works

  • Biblical commentaries – Melekhet Machshevet5
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  • Jewish thought – Chanukkat HaBayit6
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Torah Commentary

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Later exegetes

Supercommentaries

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