Avraham Rovigo
1650 CE–1713 CE · Acharonim · Modena
Italian kabbalist of Modena (c.1650–1713), a disciple of R. Moshe Zacuto. In 1702 he emigrated to the Land of Israel and founded a yeshiva in Jerusalem, and for years served the Jerusalem rabbinate as a communal emissary across Europe. He was a lifelong friend of R. Benjamin ha-Kohen Vitale. Rovigo was also a leading figure in the moderate Sabbatean current of his time — having become convinced of Shabbetai Tzvi's messianic claims — and the Jerusalem yeshiva he founded drew many who shared that belief.
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ModenaמודנהNorthern Italy — Este duchy
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Born in Modena, his lifelong base in northern Italy.
About Modena
Modena, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, was refounded as the Roman colony of Mutina in 183 BCE. Its Romanesque cathedral, with the Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pope Adrian III died near Modena in 885 and was buried at the nearby abbey of Nonantola. After Ferrara passed to the papacy in 1598, Modena became the main seat of the Este dukes, and it had a notable Jewish community: the kabbalist Aaron Berechiah of Modena (d. 1639) wrote Ma'avar Yabbok, an influential book of prayers and teachings on the sick, the dying and the dead, and the scholar Abraham Rovigo was born there around 1650.
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