Yehiel Michel ben Avraham Epstein Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יחיאל מיכל בן אברהם עפשטיין אשכנזי), also known as Jeḥiel Michel Segal Epstein (Hebrew: יחיאל מיכל סג"ל עפשטיין) was a Sabbatean writer and ethicist who lived in the seventeenth century.^[1]

In 1683, Yehiel Michel published Ḳiẓẓur Shnei Luḥot haBrit (Hebrew: קיצור שני לחות הברית),^[2][3] also known as Kitzur Shelah (Hebrew: קיצור של"ה),^[4] written after the style of Isaiah Horowitz's Shnei Luḥot haBrit (1648). A second edition, with numerous additions, and containing extracts from current ethical works, was published fifteen years later at Fürth. Nothing is known of his career.^[5] Jacob Emden publicized the Sabbatean nature of the work in Torat Kinna'ot (1752) and explicit references to Zevi were excised from subsequent editions.^[1] The Kitzur Shelah is notable for introducing many mystical and liturgical traditions, always citing them, however, to manuscripts supposedly in the author's possession.

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