Speher Mo’adei Shachar.

AUCTION 61 |
Wednesday, March 12th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 195
MENDELSSOHN, MOSES.
Speher Mo’adei Shachar.
Königsberg: Samter & Rathke. 1844
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $1,400
First Hebrew translation of Mendelssohn’s Morgenstunden oder Vorlesungen über das. <<Significant for Mendelsohn’s understanding of Spinoza’s thought.>>
Dasein Gottes [”Morning Hours, or Lectures about God’s existence)”] (1785). A series of lectures addressed to Mendelssohn’s oldest son, son-in-law and a young friend, usually held “in the morning hours”, in which he explained his personal philosophical world-view, his own understanding of Spinoza and Lessing’s purified (“geläutert”) pantheism.