Sephathaim Yishak.... [two letters regarding the Sabbatian characteristics of the amulets produced by Jonathan Eybescheutz]

(EYBESCHEUTZ, JONATHAN)

n.p.

(Altona

1752)

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, Altona 53; Mehlman 1715

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