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Lot 51
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Aspaklaria Hameira [Jacob Emden, Altona: 1753]

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Description

  • ink, paper, leather
4 pages (13 x 8 1/2 in.; 330 x 215 mm). Strengthened at gutter; minor tears at creases expertly repaired; residual light staining. Modern blind tooled goatskin; title stamped in brown ink on upper board.

Literature

Vinograd, Altona 55; Mehlman 1707.  Y.Raphael, "Emden" Aresheth III, p.173.  Regarding Landau’s stance in the controversy, See S. Z. Leiman, When a Rabbi is Accused of Heresy in Essays in Honor of Marvin Fox (1989) pp 179-194

Catalogue Note

AN IMPORTANT PUBLICATION BRANDING JONATHAN EYBESCHEUTZ A HERETIC

A collection of letters and decisions attacking Rabbi Jonathan Eybescheutz, Chief Rabbi of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck, apparently published by his primary opponent Rabbi Jacob Emden. The correspondents included Jacob Joshua Falk, Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt, the author of Pnei Yehoshua; the scholars of the Kloiz of Brody; and Ezekiel Landau, Chief Rabbi of Prague and author of Noda Beyehuda.

Using uncharacteristically sharp rhetoric, the letters relentlessly attack Eybescheutz, stating that his deeds and personality are all "lies and forgery:' Until the resolution of the matter, it is decreed forbidden to ask Eybeschuetz to rule on any matter of Jewish law, nor to consume foodstuffs which he has ritually supervised.