Eleazar harel biography of abraham
The worldview of the Haredim is often diametrically opposed to that of the majority of the population.
After all, our forefather Abraham had wandered between Hebron and Bethlehem, not Tel Aviv and Netanya, and King David had conquered and elevated the city of..
Alchemy; written as a Jew, but with a Christian introduction and additions, or perhaps by a Marrano aka Converso forced to renounce Judaism for Christianity.
From the transliterations of the Latin of Hebrew words, it seems he was an Ashkenazi Jew, from Russia, Poland, Germany, etc like Worms, Germany rather than Sephardic speaker like the earlier Abraham Von Worms; Rosicrucian imagery;
Further complicating the historical situation of Age-Old Chymical Work aka Uralter Chymisches Werck, 1735 by Abraham the Jew aka Rabbi Abraham Eleazar is the earlier Abraham the Jew’s Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, dated 1458, English in 1883.
In his translation's introduction, MacGregor Mathers suggests this “earlier” (actually later) Abraham Eleazer might be the fore-bearer of the Abraham aka Abraham Von Worms who seeks out Abramelin, without any written explanation.
(page xix, Book of Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin, 1974 edition). But the two works have nothing in common, the later being