[1] After studying in his native city under the direction of Jacob Ginzburg and Akiba Frankfort, Loans went to Kraków, where he attended the lectures of Rabbi Menahem Mendel Avigdors.
[2] One of his students was Juspa Schammes the chronicler of the Jewish community of Worms and the synagogue caretaker (shammes).
1832), a commentary on Baḥya's "Ḥobot ha-Lebabot"; Ẓofnat Pa'aneaḥ (Neubauer, "Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS.
[2] Loans also edited the "'Ammude Shelomoh" of Solomon Luria on the "Semag" (Basel, 1599), and the "Sha'are Dura" of Isaac ben Meïr of Dueren, to which he wrote a preface (Neubauer, "Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS.
He was born to Rabbi Yosef Yutzpa, an exiled Spanish Jew who moved to Kracow.
[5] Rabbi Eliyahu Baal Shem ben Yosef Yutzpa held a Yeshivah in Worms, which moved to Chelm, then to Prague.
[6] He was forced to leave Wormz on the account of Rabbi Pinchas Zelig of Speyer who was anti the publication of the Zohar in 1558 and its dissemination.