Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto (ca. 1625–1 October 1697), also known as the Ramaz, was a kabalistic writer and poet. It is generally supposed that his birthplace was Amsterdam, although, like the Amsterdam rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, he probably lived in Venice, the residence of a brother named Nehemiah. He was a pupil of Morteira, on whose death he composed a long elegy (edited by Kaufmann in R. E. J. xxxvii. 115 et seq.), and he was also a fellow student of Baruch Spinoza.
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