Sekl Loeb Wormser (1768–1846)[2] was a rabbi, talmudist, kabbalist,[3] and Baal Shem (worker of miracles through the Name of God).

He received his talmudic education in Frankfurt, in the yeshiva of Rabbi Nathan Adler, and following in the latter's footsteps, accepted an ascetic way of life and turned to kabbalistic studies.

[1] About 1790,[3] he returned with his wife[1] to Michelstadt where he maintained a yeshiva for many years (serving as rosh yeshiva and instructing around seventy students in Tanakh, Talmud, and the works of the poskim, as well as secular subjects including German and mathematics[1]) and served, at first unofficially, until 1822 as a recognized district rabbi.

He denied any such supernatural power but agreed to receive people who sought his advice and guidance, giving them natural remedies and sometimes amulets.

[1] He studied German philosophy and was particularly attracted by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.