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Rare! First Time in Auctions: Emek Habaca Eulogy for Rabbeinu the Noda BiYehuda Published in the Year of His Passing - Single Edition Prague, 1793 - ”Emek Habacha, eulogy for Rabbeinu... Rabbi Yechezkel Segal Landau Av Beit Din and Ram of our community author of Sefer Noda BiYehuda and Sifrei Tzalach... by Rabbi Baruch Yeitles. Edited [and added comments] by his brother Yehuda”. First and single edition. Prague - 1793. [36] pp. Stains and minor blemishes. Minor stains on the title page. Very good overall condition.  An extremely rare book which has never been auctioned.  The author Rabbi Baruch Yeitles (1762-1814) author of Sefer Ta'am Hamelech on Sefer Sha'ar Hamelech. Was a disciple of the Noda BIYehuda, Rabbi Bezalel Raggensburg, Rabbi Eliezer Kallir the author of Or Chadash and Rabbi Elazar Fleckles. Rabbi Baruch's father was Yonah Yeitles, a Jewish physician in Prague who, in this book, is titled ”Asia Rabba [Head physician] of our community”. Due to a medical book he published, he received a governmental license to treat Christians. Rabbi Baruch followed in his father's footsteps; he left his studies in Prague with the Noda BiYehuda and travelled to Berlin, where he befriended the group of intellectuals who gathered around Moshe Mendelssohn, one of the founders of the Enlightenment Movement. After returning to Prague, his hometown, Rabbi Baruch became the leader of the movement in Prague. After the Noda BiYehuda's passing, Rabbi Baruch made efforts to become the Rav of Prague, offending his Rav's son, Rabbi Shmuel Landau, who nevertheless succeeded his father as Rav of the town.  The controversial book The book was published by the linguist Yehuda Yeitles. It was based on a sermon delivered by his brother, Rabbi Baruch, about Rabbeinu Yechezkel Landau, the Noda BiYehuda. The praises appearing in the book shocked the editors of Hame'asef, the journal of the Enlightenment Movement, in which Yeitles previously published many articles and poems. In a sharp article (Hame'asef, volume VII, 1797, pp. 79-91), the journal's editors criticized him for his book and its content, accusing him of treason. A year later, he published the Sefer HaOrev, in which he denounced their anti-traditional beliefs, stating the journal should not be titled Hame'asef but rather HaAsafsuf (the Mob). He accused the editor Wolfson, Yoel Brill and their colleagues of misrepresenting the movement's ideals and tried to convince other moderate members of the Enlightenment Movement to condemn them.  Signatures : ”The young Avraham Moshe Freund” - apparently, the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Moshe Freund Av Beit Din of Mishkovitz who is mentioned in Shut Chatam Sofer (Yoreh Deah 76; section VI 14).