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LIFE Rabbi Menasseh was a friend of Rembrandt . He was born in Madeira in 1604 , with the name Manoel Dias Soeyro, a year after his parents had left Portugal because of the Inquisition . The family moved to The Netherlands in 1610 . The Netherlands was in the middle of a process of religious revolt throughout the Eighty Years' War ( 1568 – 1648 ). The family's arrival in 1610 was during the Truce mediated by France and England at The Hague . Rabbi Menasseh is particularly known for his letter Petition ing Oliver Cromwell and the British Parliament to reverse the Decisions Of Previous Rulers and allow Jews to return to England. See History Of The Jews In England--Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel's Mission . His petition was successful and Jews began to gradually resettle in Britain from then onwards. Eventually, after 200 years, the Jews were so much an integrated part of British society that there was a Prime Minister of Jewish ancestry, Benjamin Disraeli . His major work, ''Nishmat Hayim'', stayed as the reference on the Jewish concept of Gilgul . Rabbi Menasseh died at Middelburg in the Netherlands in the winter of 1657 (14 ''Kislev'' 5418), shortly after his return from England (without knowing the success his petition would have eventually). His tomb is in the ''Beit Hayim'' cemetery in Ouderkerk a/d Amstel. SEE ALSO
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