Seder Olam Rabah Vezuta Umegilath Ta’anith [anonymous historical narrative]. With commentary by Jacob Emden

(EMDEN, JACOB).

Christian Simon Schroeder

Hamburg

1757

Copy of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Aryeh Leib Levin, Chief Rabbi of Berlin, and his son Saul Berlin of Frankfurt o/Oder (author of “Besamim Rosh”)

Vinograd, Hamburg 87; Raphael, Areshet vol. III, p.270 (no. 28:1)

R. Jacob Emden appended to the narrative details relating to Sabbatianism and the Frankists in Poland. Emden takes up a very delicate matter: whether it would be right for the Polish rabbis to denounce the Sabbatians to the Catholic Church and expose them for the immoralists they truly were. Emden answers in the affirmative, and in making a case, demonstrates total familiarity with—of all things!—Pauline literature (quoting chapter and verse from Galatians, Corinthians, and Acts). Emden attempts to resolve glaring contradictions in Paul writings. (Emden, f. 33). An INVALUABLE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FRANKIST MOVEMENT IN POLAND. Also includes a supplement on the Blessing of the Sun