Midbar Tahapuchot

This manuscript is a 19th-century copy of a 17th-century text that recounts the hardships Isaac Levi had to endure in 1651 due to the machinations of Rabbi Simcha Luzzato, a colleague of the author's grandfather, Judah Arye (Leone) da Modena. Luzzato refused to accept Levi’s ordination until aged 35 and allow him to respond to halachic inquiries until age 40. Included, is a halachic ruling to show the correctness of the author's stand. See Otzar Haseforim- Beth Yaakov p. 297 no.522 describing this manuscript, once owned by Mordecai Shmuel Girondi, as cited in his Toldoth Gedolei Yisrael no.113. See also Cecil Roth, Venice (1930), pp. 145 and 228 concerning their "long dispute which left the protagonist (Isaac Levi) a soured man and which added a new work to the scanty autobiographical literature."