Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto

Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto (c. 1625 – 1 October 1697), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMa"Z, was a rabbi, Kabbalist, and poet. Zacuto, who was born into a Portuguese Marrano family in Amsterdam, studied Jewish subjects under Saul Levi Morteira (an elegy on the latter's death by Zacuto was published by D. Kaufmann in REJ, 37 (1898), 115). He also studied secular subjects, such as the Latin language. As a pupil of Morteira, he may also have been, as a youth still in Amsterdam, a fellow student of Baruch Spinoza.^[1]

^ Scholem, Gershom, and Jozeph Michman (2007). "Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 21 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. pp. 435–437. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4 – via Gale Virtual Reference Library.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[1] Scholem, Gershom, and Jozeph Michman (2007). "Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 21 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. pp. 435–437. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4 – via Gale Virtual Reference Library.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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