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

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(JERUSALEM)

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1896

Description

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

summary

Throughout the nineteenth-century 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 this ban from time to time lest the populace mistakenly assume that it had expired

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