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

ERGAS, JOSEPH.

for Moses Hagiz

London

1715

FIRST EDITION. The Samuel Schoenblum-Mayer Sulzberger copy. Signature on title: Mordecai Samuel Ghirondi of Padua

Vinograd, London 29; Roth, London 8; Mehlman 1700

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