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Naphtali Cohen
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “russo-german rabbi and kabalist born in ostrowo in the ukraine”. Today it says “rabbi and kabalist born in ostroh”.
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Naphtali Cohen Portrait of Rabbi Naphtali Cohen , from 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia Naphtali Cohen (1649–1718), also known as Naphtali Katz , was a Russo-German rabbi and kabalist born in Ostrowo in Ukraine .1 He belonged to a family of rabbis in Ostrowo, where his father, Isaac Cohen, a great-great-grandson of the Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel , had fled during the Polish–Cossack–Tatar War .
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russo-german rabbi and kabalist born in ostrowo in the ukraine
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rabbi and kabalist born in ostroh
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