PESAḤ PETER:
German baptized Jew of the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth century. He charged that the Jews in their concluding prayer 'Alenu made a blasphemous allusion to Jesus in the words: "for they bow before vanity and emptiness [
]," since 
and 
each equals 316 in numerical value.
Bibliography:
- Lipmann, Niẓẓaḥon, ed. Hackspann, Altdorf, 1644;
- Grätz, Gesch. 3d ed., viii. 70-72.
