Sephathaim Yishak.... [two letters regarding the Sabbatian characteristics of the amulets produced by Jonathan Eybescheutz]
AUCTION 16 |
Tuesday, June 25th,
2002 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 98
(EYBESCHEUTZ, JONATHAN)
Sephathaim Yishak.... [two letters regarding the Sabbatian characteristics of the amulets produced by Jonathan Eybescheutz]
(Altona: n.p. 1752)
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
PRICE REALIZED $5,500
Two letters addressed to R. Simcha (Ra)Paport and his colleagues, the Dayanim of Prague. The first from R. Jacob Joshua of Cracow, the author of Pnei Yehoshua; the second from R. Aryeh Leib ben Saul of Amsterdam, the brother-in-law of Jacob Emden. They state they had examined the amulets at the heart of the Eybescheutz controversy, and declare the originator should be uncompromisingly excommunicated. In response to a challenge from the Dayanim of Prague, these two Rabbis defend their position and suggest their ban was not a personal attack on Jonathan Eybescheutz, who despite his ambiguities was well respected as a scholar, but rather a pronouncement against the unidentified Sabbatian