Tochachath Megulah Vehatzad Nachash [anti-Sabbatianism]. Two parts in one

AUCTION 37 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 1:00

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Lot 58

ERGAS, JOSEPH.

Tochachath Megulah Vehatzad Nachash [anti-Sabbatianism]. Two parts in one

FIRST EDITION. The Samuel Schoenblum-Mayer Sulzberger copy. Signature on title: Mordecai Samuel Ghirondi of Padua ff. (2), 62. Later patterned boards, rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, London 29; Roth, London 8; Mehlman 1700

London: for Moses Hagiz 1715

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

A two-pronged attack that sought to censure Nechemiah Hayon, perhaps the most militant champion of Sabbatian revisionism. Ergas’ polemic against Hayon contained both kabbalistic refutations of the legitimacy of Sabbatian mystical belief and harsh invective against Hayon personally. The second part of the volume [“To Ensnare a Serpent”] is a retaliation to Hayon’s attack upon the Chacham Zvi (entitled Hatzad Zvi [“To Ensnare a Deer”]. On Ergas’ role in this controversy see E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp.137-143; and B. Naor, Post Sabbatian Sabatianism (1999) pp.145-49