Early Life
Bedersi was a precocious child. He was scarcely fifteen years old when he published his work Baḳḳashat ha-Memim (The Mem Prayer), a hymn of 1,000 words, each of which begins with the letter "mem" (translated into Latin and German). Bedersi's father, very much pleased with those evidences of his child's precocity, expressed his approbation in a short poem which in many editions is given at the end of the hymn. The work contains only mere quibbles on Biblical passages, and is often very obscure; but, considering the age of the author, the facility with which he handles the Hebrew vocabulary is astonishing.
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