Moda’ah Rabah [ban on secular studies in the Holy Land]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(JERUSALEM)

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1896

Description

Single-page broadside printed on orange paper. Endorsed by Rabbis Joshua Leib Diskin, Shneur Zalman of Lublin and Samuel Salant

summary

The Aschkenazic rabbis of Eretz Israel considered anathema the opening of schools wherein secular studies would form a part of the curriculum. It was seen necessary to reinforce the original ban of 1878 from time to time lest the populace mistakenly assume that it had expired

Slight stain and hole affecting one letter. Folio

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