Bloch, Mattithiah Ashkenazi

Cabalist; lived at Jerusalem in the seventeenth century. A blind adherent and indefatigable apostle of Shabbethai Ẓebi, he was appointed by him one of his prophets charged with the announcement of the Redemption.

Bibliography:

  * Sasportas, Ẓiẓat Nobel Ẓebi, p. 13;
  * Kahana, 'Eben ha-To'im, p. 14;
  * Grätz, Gesch. der Juden, x. 199, 202.



K. I. Br.