Flekeles, Eleazar ben-David
Flekeles, Eleazar ben-David
a Jewish rabbi, was born at Prague in 1754, and died there in 1826, leaving , a disquisition and criticism of the sect of the Sabbathaeans in Prague, (1800): , a collection of derashas, in which he vents his ire against the translators of the Bible, especially against the school of Moses Mendelssohn (1787): , on the holy names of God in the Scripture (1812). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:283 sq.; Spitz, , or Biography of Flekeles (Prague, 1827). (B.P.)