<<(MaHaRa’L of Prague).>> Chibur Nethivoth Olam [ethical thought].

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LOEWE, JUDAH

<<(MaHaRa’L of Prague).>> Chibur Nethivoth Olam [ethical thought].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. 131 (i.e. 132). Ex-library, foxed and browned. Modern blind-tooled calf. Folio. Vinograd, Prague 81.

Prague: Gershom ben Bezalel Katz 1595

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The most concentrated treatment of the Mahaharal’s perspective to matters of ethical morality. For a detailed analysis of the ethical thought found in Nethivoth Olam, see M. Fox, The Moral Philosophy of MaHaRa’L, in: Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983) pp. 167-85.