Meir Angel
Meir ben Abraham Angel of Belgrade was a rabbi and maggid who lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
He died in Safed, in the Land of Israel, after having traveled through Poland, Italy, and Greece.
Works
- "Masoret ha-Berit", 700 homilies on texts strung together according to certain Masoretic lists, published at Kraków, in 1619.
- "Masoret ha-Berit ha-Gadol," containing 1,650 homilies of the same character, published at Mantua, in 1622.
- "Ḳeshet Neḥushah", an ethical work in verse alternating with rimed prose. In this work, he pictures a sort of moral combat in which the tendency to do ill is personified. This was published, about the year 1593, at Belyedere, near Constantinople, by Reyna, the widow of Joseph Nasi.