KATZ, NAPHTALI BEN ISAAC (Ha-Kohen; 1645–1719), rabbi and kabbalist. Katz was born in Stepan (Volhynia), where his father was rabbi. In his youth he was taken captive by the Tatars but managed to escape. He succeeded his father as av bet din of Stepan and then served as rabbi of Ostrow (1680–89), Posen (1690–1704), and Frankfurt on the Main (1704–11). In the latter year a fire broke out in his house, destroying the whole Jewish quarter of Frankfurt. After he had been maliciously charged with preventing the extinguishing of the fire because he wanted to test his amulets – in the use of which he was expert – he was imprisoned and compelled to resign his post. He went to Prague, staying in the house of David *Oppenheim, where he met Nehemiah *Ḥayon and even gave approbation to his book Oz le-Elohim (also called Meheimnuta de-Kalla; Berlin, 1713). From 1713 to 1715 he lived in Breslau, where together with Ẓevi Hirsch *Ashkenazi he excommunicated Ḥayon after realizing his true character. In 1715, after King Augustus of Poland had rejected his application to be restored to his post as rabbi of Posen, he returned to Ostrow where his son Bezalel was rabbi. While journeying to Ereẓ Israel he was taken ill in Constantinople and died there.

Among his works are Pi Yesharim (Frankfurt, 1702), kabbalistic comments to the word bereshit ("in the beginning"); Birkat ha-Shem (2 pts., ibid., 1704–06), including Semikhat Ḥakhamim, consisting of hadranim (see *Hadran) and Kedushah u-Verakhah, novellae to the tractate Berakhot; and Sha'ar Naftali, poems and piyyutim (Bruenn, 1757). Several works are still in manuscript. Katz was one of the important halakhic authorities of his generation and one of the greatest kabbalists of Poland. His image persisted in the memory of the people, and many legends and wondrous tales about him circulated for many generations. He conducted his rabbinate high-handedly and as a result met much opposition from the leaders of the communities, which was apparently the cause of his frequent wanderings. Despite this he had a sensitive soul which found expression in his poems, piyyutim, and prayers which have been published in various places. His well-known ethical will (1729?) contains profound thoughts and moral instruction and some see in it one of the first sparks of practical *Ḥasidism.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Perles, in: MGWJ, 14 (1865), 92f.; M. Horovitz, Frankfurter Rabbinen, (1969), 98–114; Horodezky, in: Ha-Goren, 1 (1898), 100–2; Kaufmann, in: REJ, 36 (1898), 256–86; 37 (1898), 274–83; idem, in: JJGL, 2 (1899), 123–47; M.M. Biber, Mazkeret li-Gedolei Ostraha (1907), 63–69; Lewin, in: HḤY, 6 (1922), 261–63; M.E. Rapoport-Hartstein, Shalshelet Zahav (1931); Davidson, Oẓar, 4 (1931), 453; Narkis, in: KS, 15 (1938–39), 370–2; Halpern, Pinkas, 206ff., 601; Peli, in: Sinai, 39 (1956), 242–60; A. Yaari, Meḥkerei Sefer (1958), 55ff.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ID: I67157 Name: Naftali (Rabbi) ben Isaac KATZ Sex: M Name: Naftali ben Isaak ben Naftali KOHN 1 Birth: 1649 in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Województwo Wielkopolskie (Greater Poland Voivodeship). Polska (Poland) Birth: 1649 in Ostroh (Ostrog), Rivnens’ka Oblast’ (Rivne Oblast), Ukraine Death: 2 FEB 1719/20 in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) Occupation: Rabbi in Frankfurt-am-Main 1

Father: Isaac (Rabbi) ben Naftali KATZ b: ABT 1608 in Praha (Prague), Bohemia (Czech Republic) Mother: Edel bat Menachem Mendel MARGOLIOTH b: ABT 1610

Marriage 1 Esther Sheindel bat Samuel ZAK b: ABT 1652 Children

Jakob Mordechai COHEN b: ABT 1673

Eidel Perel KATZ b: ABT 1690

Bezalel KATZ b: ABT 1680

Sources: Title: Blaetter für jüdische Geschichte und Litteratur Author: Dr. Leopold Löwenstein Publication: Verlag des "Israelit", Mainz Repository: Media: Book Page: p. 172

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• Ancestor of Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Leib Margaliyos, A.B.D. Exin (Kcynia).
• Relative of Meir Kremnitzer, of Kalish.
• Ancestor of R' Aaron Cohen.

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text-decoration-color: initial;">ב-<a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" title="15 בינואר" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8">15 בינואר</a> <a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" title="1711" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/1711">1711</a> (<a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" title="כ" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%22%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%98%D7%91%D7%AA">כ"ד בטבת</a> <a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" title="ה'תע" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%27%D7%AA%D7%A2%22%D7%90">ה'תע"א</a>) פרצה מסיבה בלתי ידועה <a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" title="שריפה" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94">שריפה</a>, והעלילו על הרב כ"ץ שהוא אשם בפריצתה. הוא הואשם בידי השלטונות הנוצריים בנזק שנגרם, ונאסר.<sup id="cite_ref-ליבס_4-1" class="reference" style="white-space: nowrap; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;"><a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%9B...">[4]</a></sup> הוא זוכה במשפט, לאחר שהוברר כי השרפה פרצה באשמת אדם אחר, אךהוא נאלץ לעזוב את העיר בעקבות השמועות הרבות עליו. משם עבר ל<a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" title="פראג" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%92">פראג</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="white-space: nowrap; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;"><a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%9B...">[6]</a></sup> סיפור השריפה הופץ ועבר גלגולים רבים במסגרת המלחמה נגד השבתאות, ומאוחר יותר מלחמת ה<a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; 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background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" title="ספר תורה" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A8...">ספרי תורה</a>, ארבעה יהודים אף נספו בשריפה, והרב הואשם ב<a class="new" style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #a55858;" title="הצתה (שפע) (הדף אינו קיים)" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%AA%D7%94...">הצתת</a> השריפה עצמה.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="white-space: nowrap; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;"><a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%9B...">[7]</a></sup>ההאשמות כללו שימוש בקבלה נגד הצלב הנוצרי והעברתו באש.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="white-space: nowrap; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;"><a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%9B...">[8]</a></sup> טענות אלו תורגמו מאוחר יותר להאשמתו בכך שהשריפה פרצה כתוצאה משימוש בקבלה מעשית ומאגיה שחורה, או האשמתו בכך שנמנעבזדון מקריאה לכבאים על מנת לבדוק את כח קמעותיו.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="white-space: nowrap; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;"><a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%9B...">[9]</a></sup> יהודי העיר לא הצטרפו להאשמות, ובהמשך להאשמתו באמונות תפילות או מאגיה שחורה, היו מי שפירשו זאת כתמיכת יהודי העיירה ברב ובהליכותיו.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="white-space: nowrap; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;"><a style="text-decoration: none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #5a3696;" href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%9B...">[10]</a></sup></p> <p style="font-size: 14px; 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[%D7%9B%D7%9A שמדובר בשלשה שמות לספר אחד]. יש לציין ששמו לדורות הונצח דווקא בשם הספר "סמיכת חכמים".</p>

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מין: זכר
כינוי: Smichat Chachamim, Semichas Chachomim, סמיכת חכמים
לידה: סביבות 1650 - Ostrá, Ostrá, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic
מקצוע: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%9B%..., Bal "Semichas Chachamim", Av Beis Din Frankfurt Uposneh, אב בית דין ק"ק פוזנא ואח"כ אב בית דין ק"ק פראנקפורט דמיין
פטירה: 15 בינו' 1717 - Istanbul Province, Istanbul, Turkey
קבורה: סביבות 15 בינו' 1719 - Contantinople, Istanbul Province, Turkey
אב: יצחק הכהן כ"ץ, II [of Stopin and Lublin]
אם: Edel Katz (לבית d. Menachem Mendel Margaliot-Stengen)
אשה: אסתר שיינדל (שמלקא) כץ (לבית Zak)
ילדים: יעקב מרדכי כץ (לבית HaKohen), אב"ד פוזנא, R' Betzalel HaKohen Katz M'Ostroho, Sprintze HaKohen Katz, Eidel Perel Ester? רוקח (לבית כץ), Keila Eskeles (לבית Katz), Shmuel Shmelka HaKohen Katz, [ABD Breslau], Azriel HaKohen Katz, Chaim Katz, Pinchas Yitzhak Katz, [ABD Fulda and Kremsier], Perl Mirels (לבית Katz), פערל מירלס, Shealtiel Ayzik HaKohen Katz, Yehudis (לבית הכהן-כץ)
אחים ואחיות: Palke ? (לבית Katz), Yehuda Leib HaKohein Katz, ABD Plotzk, Ester Katz, Menachem Mendel Katz, Unknown הכהן-כץ, Rab. Jesaja Ben Issak KOHN Katz (לבית כץ), דומ"צ בראדי 4

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From the Encyclopedia Judaica (2007):

KATZ, NAPHTALI BEN ISAAC (Ha-Kohen; 1645-1719), rabbi and kabbalist.

Katz was born in Stepan (Volhynia), where his father was rabbi. In his youth he was taken captive by the Tatars but managed to escape. He succeeded his father as av bet din of Stepan and then served as rabbi of Ostrow (1680-89), Posen (1690-1704), and Frankfurt on the Main (1704-11).

In the latter year a fire broke out in his house, destroying the whole Jewish quarter of Frankfurt. After he had been maliciously charged with preventing the extinguishing of the fire because he wanted to test his amulets - in the use of which he was expert - he was imprisoned and compelled to resign his post.

He went to Prague, staying in the house of David *Oppenheim, where he met Nehemiah *Ḥayon and even gave approbation to his book Oz le-Elohim (also called Meheimnuta de-Kalla; Berlin, 1713). From 1713 to 1715 he lived in Breslau, where together with Ẓevi Hirsch *Ashkenazi he excommunicated Ḥayon afer realizing his true character.

In 1715, after King Augustus of Poland had rejected his application to be restored to his post as rabbi of Posen, he returned to Ostrow where his son Bezalel was rabbi. While journeying to Ereẓ Israel he was taken ill in Constantinople and died there.

Among his works are Pi Yesharim (Frankfurt, 1702), kabbalistic comments to the word bereshit (“in the beginning”); Birkat ha-Shem (2 pts., ibid., 1704-06), including Semikhat Ḥakhamim, consisting of hadranim (see *Hadran) and Kedushah u-Verakhah, novellae to the tractate Berakhot; and Sha’ar Nafali, poems and piyyutim (Bruenn, 1757). Several works are still in manuscript.

Katz was one of the important halakhic authorities of his generation and one of the greatest kabbalists of Poland. His image persisted in the memory of the people, and many legends and wondrous tales about him circulated for many generations. He conducted his rabbinate high-handedly and as a result met much opposition from the leaders of the communities, which was apparently the cause of his frequent wanderings. Despite this he had a sensitive soul which found expression in his poems, piyyutim, and prayers which have been published in various places. His well-known ethical will (1729?) contains profound thoughts and moral instruction and some see in it one of the frst sparks of practical *Ḥasidism.

Bibliography:

Perles, in: mgwj, 14 (1865), 92f.; M. Horovitz, Frankfurter Rabbinen, (1969), 98-114; Horodezky, in: Ha-Goren, 1 (1898), 100-2; Kaufmann, in: REJ, 36 (1898), 256-86; 37 (1898), 274-83; idem, in: JJGL, 2 (1899), 123-47; M.M. Biber, Mazkeret li-Gedolei Ostraha (1907), 63-69; Lewin, in: HḤ Y, 6 (1922), 261-63; M.E. RapoportHartstein, Shalshelet Zahav (1931); Davidson, Oẓar, 4 (1931), 453; Narkis, in: KS, 15 (1938-39), 370-2; Halpern, Pinkas, 206ff., 601; Peli, in: Sinai, 39 (1956), 242-60; A. Yaari, Meḥ kerei Sefer (1958), 55ff.

[Yehoshua Horowitz]

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From the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia:

COHEN, NAPHTALI

Russo-German rabbi and cabalist; born in 1649 at Ostrowo in the Ukraine; died at Constantinople Dec. 20, 1718. He belonged to a family of rabbis in Ostrowo, whither his father, Isaac Cohen, had fled during the Cossack war. In 1663 Cohen fell into the hands of the Tatars, who kept him in servitude for several years. Escaping, he returned to Ostrowo, and was chosen to succeed his father as rabbi. In 1690 he was called to Posen, where he officiated as chief rabbi till 1704. There he devoted himself to the Cabala, and collected a large library of cabalistic literature.

In 1704 he was called to Frankfort-on-the-Main. On the occasion of a fire which, breaking out in his house on Jan. 14, 1711, spread to and consumed the entire Jewish quarter, it was charged that, relying on the efficacy of his cabalistic charms, he had prevented the extinction of the fire by the ordinary means. He was arrested and thrown into prison, and regained his liberty only upon renouncing his office.

He then went to Prague, where many members of his family lived. There another misfortune, which embittered his life more than the loss of his wealth and position, befell him. The Shabbethaian cabalist Nehemiah Ḥayyun appeared in Prague, declaring himself a preacher or an emissary from Palestine, and by his duplicity gained the confidence of the credulous Cohen.

Being a believer in practical Cabala, Cohen found no fault with Ḥayyun, even when the latter began to sell amulets. It is not astonishing, therefore, that when Ḥayyun asked for an approbation for his mystical work "Mehemnuta de Kula," Cohen, to whom he had prudently submitted only the main text, but not the commentaries which accompanied it, and in which the author openly professed the doctrine of the Trinity, readily granted it, and gave him a glowing recommendation. Provided with this and with other recommendations secured in the same way, Ḥayyun traveled throughout Moravia and Silesia, propagating everywhere his Shabbethaian teachings.

Cohen soon discovered his mistake, and endeavored, but without success, to recover his approbation, although he did not as yet realize the full import of the book. It was in 1713, while Cohen was staying at Breslau (where he acted as a rabbi until 1716), that Ḥakam Ẓebi Ashkenazi of Amsterdam informed him of its tenets. Cohen thereupon acted rigorously. He launched a ban against the author and his book, and became one of the most zealous supporters of Ḥakam Ẓebi in his campaign against Ḥayyun.

In 1715 Cohen went to see August II., King of Poland, to secure reinstatement in his former rabbinate of Posen, at that time vacant; but failed because of the opposition of the leaders of the community. He then returned to the Ukraine, and in 1718 started for the Holy Land, but died on the way at Constantinople.

Cohen was the author of the following works: "Birkat Adonai" (Blessing of the Lord), a commentary on Berakot, with an introduction on the corelation of the Mishnaic tractates, having the subtitle "Semikut Ḥakamim" (Connection of the Wise), Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1702 (Cohen was so proud of this work that he ordered it to be buried with him); "Meshek ha-Zera'" (Sowing of the Seed), commentary on the Mishnaic order Zeraim (not published); "Pi Yesharim" (Mouth of the Righteous), a cabalistic introduction to Genesis, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1702; "Sefer Bet Raḥel" (Book of the House of Rachel), quoted in his will, probably identical with "Tefillat Bet Raḥel" (Prayer of the House of Rachel), published at Amsterdam in 1741.

Cohen also edited a number of prayer-books, including "Seliḥot" (Penitential Prayers), with a commentary, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1702; prayers for the Society for Burial, ib., n.d.; a prayer for the staying of the plague, Prague, 1713; and an ode on a Sefer Torah donated by Baruch Austerlitz. He also wrote an epistle directed against Nehemiah Ḥayyun. Cohen's ethical will, "Ẓawwa'ah," is replete with lofty moral instructions (Berlin, 1729).

Bibliography:

Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, p. 14; E. Carmoly, Revue Orientale, iii. 312 et seq.; Greatz, Gesch. x. 314, 326; Jost, Gesch. der Israeliten, viii. 305 et seq.; Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 2025-2026: Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. i., No. 1718; Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 429; Brann, in Graetz Jubelschrift, p. 232; Kaufmann, in Rev. Etudes Juives, xxxvi. 250 et seq.

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ID: I67157 Name: Naftali (Rabbi) ben Isaac KATZ Name: Naftali ben Isaak ben Naftali KOHN Birth: 1649 in Ostrow Wielkopolski (Greater Poland Voivodeship). Polska (Poland) Birth: 1649 in Ostroh (Ostrog), Rivnens´ka Oblast´ (Rivne Oblast), Ukraine Death: 2 FEB 1719/20 in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) Occupation: Rabbi in Frankfurt-am-Main

Father: Isaac (Rabbi) ben Naftali KATZ b: ABT 1608 in Praha (Prague), Bohemia (Czech Republic) Mother: Edel bat Menachem Mendel MARGOLIOTH b: ABT 1610

Sources: Blaetter f'ur judische Geschichte und Litteratur Author: Dr. Leopold Lowenstein Verlag des "Israelit", Mainz Repository: Media: Book Page: p. 172

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See Also:

Liebes, Judah. A Profile of R. Naphtali Katz From Frankfurt and His Attitude Towards Sabbateanism, in Mysticism, Magis, and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism: International Symposium

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<p>Smichas Chachamim </p>

The Smichas Chachomim

נפטר כד טבת תע"ט

הגאון הקדוש רבן של כל בני הגולה בדורו דור דעה מוהר״ר רבי ר׳

נפתלי הכהן זי״ע, אבד״ק פוזנא ואח״כ בק״ק פפד״מ, בעל המחבר ספר סמיכת חכמים. והנני מעתיק פה איזה נוסח מהקמעות שלו וזל״ק: ״זכות אבותי הקדושים אשר בארץ המה מכל הצדדים גאוני ארץ אשר שמם מפורסם מקצה השמים עד קצה הארץ מופלגים בתורה ובחסידות, גאונים מפורסמים ברית כהונת עולם, בקבלה לעילא מכל ברכתא עד פנחס בן אלעזר בן אהרן הכהן קנאי בן קנאי״, עכ״ל הקמיע.

וזה נוסח המצבה שלו, אשר נרשמה עפ״י צוואתו הקדושה בק״ק

קאנסטאנטינאפאל, שנסתלק שם על אם הדרך, באמצע נסיעתו לארצנו הקדושה, וז״ל: ״פה נטמן הרב מו״ה נפתלי כ״ץ זל״ה, בן הרב הגדול המופלג בדורו מו״ה יצחק כ״ץ זל״ה, משלשלת היחס כמה גאוני ארץ ראשי משפחתו מכל הצדדים ויחוס כהונה עד אהרן הכהן לא־ ל עליון, נתבקש בישיבה של מעלה כ״ד טבת שנת כי לא תעזוב נפשי לשאול״.

אבד"ק פוזין וק"ק פפד"מ שחיבר חידושי ברכות וסמיכות חכמים. [... <אזכור מ"הגאון מהר"ן זצ"ל"> ..] ואת אחיו הגאון יודא לייב אבד"ק פלאצקי והגליל, (מתוך :תפארת בנים אבותם", מגילת יוחסין שנדפסה בראש ספר "תורת אהרן", לר' אהרן קרול, פיעטרקוב תרפ"ח) בעל הספר סמיכת חכמים