Gabbai, Meir Ibn

Gabbai, Meir ibn-

a Jewish writer of Italy, in the 16th century, is the author of, דרן אמונה , a cabalistic work, which treats of the ten sephiroth (Iadua, 1563; latest edition, by Goldberg, Berlin, 1850): עבדת הקדש, also מראות אלהים, a cabalisticophilosophical work (Mantua, 1545): — תולעת יעקב, cabalistic explanations of the Jewish prayers (Constantinople, 1560). See De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), page 107 sq.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:311 sq. (B.P.)