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(KABBALAH). Eliyahu Loans (Eliyahu Ba’al Shem) . Michlol Yofi [commentary to the Book of Koheleth]. Second edition. ff. 27. Trace wormed, discolored, trimmed. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Berlin 281. Berlin, Meir ben Laizer, 1775.     Known as the Ba’al Shem of Worms, R. Eliyahu Loans (1555-1636) was a Frankfurt-born Kabbalist. He spent time in Cracow and in Prague where he initiated and led a group of mystics known as Machane Yisrael. This included R. Yoel, who taught R. Adam of Ropshnitz, who in turn schooled the Ba’al Shem Tov himself.