Speher Mo’adei Shachar.

MENDELSSOHN, MOSES.

Samter & Rathke.

Königsberg

1844

FIRST HEBREW EDITION. Translated by Joseph Herzberg. With dedication to Sir Moses Montefiore.

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.