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LOT 020:

Haskala and Polemics: Sefer Nachalat Yehuda / Minchat Kana’ut, with the approbation of the Chatam Sofer. ...

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Haskala and Polemics: Sefer Nachalat Yehuda / Minchat Kana’ut, with the approbation of the Chatam Sofer. Krakow/Pressburg 1838-1868.

1. Nachalat Yehuda, “midrash and research writings left by … Shlomo Yehuda HaKohen Rappaport”, a member of the Haskala movement. The first booklet, Ner Mitzvah and Or Torah. Ner Mitzvah: a letter to his friend who had become attached to Chassidism (1815). Or Torah: Critique of the book “Orschrift” by Rabbi Avraham Geiger (1866). Printed in Krakow 1868. [2], iii, [1], 26, [1], 242 pages. Includes a general title page and detailed title pages for each section.


2. Minchat Kana’ut, about the polemic over the Rambam’s Moreh Nevuchim. By Rabbi Abba Mari Moshe bar Yosef HaYarchi Don Astrok, a sage of Lunel who resided also in Montpellier. “A lot of letters … from the above Chacham and from other sages of France and Spain who wrote to the Rashba and what he answered them with lots of reverence…included is Sefer HaYare’ach…at the end of the book is a wonderful letter on the Moreh…/copied is an old letter which I found…I Mordechai Leib…Bislichis (of Brody). | First edition, Pressburg 1838. 185 pages.


At the beginning is an approbation from the gaon Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the Chatam Sofer. Regarding the importance of the work and the zealotry of the Rashba: “his words are Divine words, fiery as a lit flame with Yirat Hashem and his Torah…and his language is golden, sweeter than honey, imrei noam…”.


Old binding, spine reinforced with glue, a few bits of worming damage in the margins at the beginning and end of the volume, lone worming holes, stains, overall good condition.


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