Solomon Molkho

Solomon Molkho ( Shlomo Mol' kho , " Solomon, His envoyé"), born Diego Worse , (1500 - December 13rd 1532) was a " Marrane " who, after being itself reconverted with the Judaism, proclaimed Messie, and perishes by fire for Apostasie.

Diego Pires was born Chrétien with the Portugal towards 1500. He was secretary of the one of largest the court S of the country. Presenting undeniable intellectual provisions, it marked also a leaning fort for mysticism, the oniromancie and them visions. When the adventurer Juif David Reubeni went to Portugal, driving with ostentation a political mission since Khaybar (Peshawar), where were, claimed it, the exilarques ones of the Tribe of Reuben, from which it descended itself, Pires wanted to join him but it was rejected without formalities.
Il is reconverted then, circonscit and took the name of Solomon Molkho. Thus gaining the favors of Reuveni, he emigrated in Turkey, where he studied the Kabbale at Joseph Taytazak. He also met Joseph Caro.
Il went to Safed, cradle of the Juive mystic, and then started a round of preaching through all that had constituted the territory of Israel, announcing the advent of the Messianic Kingdom for 1540. In 1529, it published a collection of Sermon S under the title of title Drashot , or rear Sefer ha-Mefo' .
Ayant asset a great fame, it went in Italy, where it met the opposition of the great figures of the Italian Judaism, which feared that it does not lead its coreeligionaires to the apostasy. He managed on the other hand to convince the Pape Clement VII, having predicted a flood which fell down on Rome little time afterwards. Finally, after his mystical experiments, Solomon Molkho proclaimed Messie, or at least his precursor.
Accompagné of David Reubeni, whom it had crossed in Italy, it travelled in 1532 with Ratisbon, where a diet was held carried out by the Emperor Charles V. Molkho carried a standard struck of the inscription מכבי (acronym of " M I K amokha B aelim ''' Y ''' HVH? " , " Who, among the powerful ones, is like You, God? "). The emperor imprisoned Molkho and Reubeni, and brought back them to Italy, where they were judged with Mantoue by an ecclesiastical court which condemned them to dead by fire the December 13rd 1532 (5 Tevet 5293 in the Hebraic calendar).
Sur the Bûcher, the emperor offered forgiveness to him, if Solomon Molkho turned over to the Catholicisme. This one refused, requiring to die as a martyr.

In this year 5766, its Hiloula began the night from January 4th to 5th 2006.

See too

David Reubeni
False Messiah

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