Reuben ben Hoshke

Reuben Hoshke (Sofer) (died April 3, 1673) (Hebrew: אברהם ראובן הכהן סופר) was a Kabalist and rabbi of Prague. "Hoshke," his father's name, is a Polish diminutive for "Joshua," mistaken by G.B. De Rossi ("Dizionario," s.v. "Oski, Ruben") and Zunz ("Z. G." p. 402) for his family name.

Works

He wrote:
*"Yalḳuṭ, Re'ubeni," a cabalistic work (an imitation of the "Yalḳuṭ Ḥadash") containing a collection of sayings taken from other cabalistic works and arranged in alphabetical order (Prague, 1660)
* "Yalḳuṭ Re'ubeni ha-Gadol," (ילקוט ראובני הגדול) a cabalistic midrash on the Pentateuch arranged according to the order of the parashiyyot (Wilmersdorf, 1681)
* "Dabar Shebi-Ḳedushah," a manual of asceticism and repentance (Sulzbach, 1684)
* "Oneg Shabbat," cabalistic reflections on the Sabbath laws, followed by an appendix entitled "Derek Ḳabbalat Shabbat" (ib. 1684).

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

*Lieben, Gal 'Ed, German part, p. 41; Hebrew part, p. 36;
*Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2138;
*Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 412.

References

*JewishEncyclopedia [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=935&letter=H Jewish Encyclopedia article for Reuben ben Hoshke] , by Kaufmann Kohler and M. Seligsohn.