Isaac Ben Samuel Of Acre

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Isaac ben Samuel of Acre (fl. 13th-14th century) (Hebrew: ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿, Yitzhak ben Shmuel d'min Akko) was a kabbalist who lived in the Land of Israel. According to Abraham Azulai, Isaac ben Samuel was a pupil of Nahmanides. Isaac ben Samuel was at Acre when that town was taken by Al-Malik al-Ashraf, and was thrown into prison with many of his coreligionists, but escaped the massacre, and in 1305 went to Spain. Abraham Zacuto states in his Yu¿asin, that Moses de Leon discovered the Zohar in the time of Isaac of Acre. However, Isaac doubted the authenticity of the Zohar, not having heard of it in the Holy Land, and made inquiries about it of Nämanides' pupils, without, however, any satisfactory result. When Isaac met Moses of Leon at Valladolid, the latter took an oath that he had a copy of the Zohar written by Shimon bar Yochai himself in his house at Ávila. However, de Leon died before he could return to Ávila, and Isaac, more than ever desirous of obtaining the truth, consulted at Ávila a man named David Rafan.

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