R. Elhanan Kirchhan was an ethical writer who lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth. The eminent woman preacher Vögele der Maggid frequently referred to Simhhat ha-Nefesh, and Berthold Auerbach mentions it in his "Dichter und Kaufmann" (ed. 1855, p. 54). R. Kirhchhan occupied himself also with Biblical exegesis and published novellæ on the Pentateuch (Offenbach, 1722).