e/Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah

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has gloss	eng: Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah (17th century) was a Portuguese kabalist and physician. He received a medical training in his native country as a Marano, but fled about 1619 to Safed and devoted himself to the Talmud and the casuists ("poseḳim") until 1625; then he went to Damascus, where for eighteen years he studied the Cabala from the Zohar and the writings of Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital. He finally settled at Jerusalem and opened a yeshibah for the study of the Zohar and other cabalistic works, David Conforte being for some time one of his pupils (Ḳore ha-Dorot, pp. 36a, 49a).
lexicalization	eng: Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah
instance of	(noun) spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law rabbi