Meswa, Joseph ben David. Prodgama Chadasha [Open letter defending the author’s book MiBein haChidoth against the calumny of R. Anshel Worms]

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author

(POLEMIC)

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1767

Description

Broadside

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1930

summary

The physician Anshel Worms claimed that the author misinterpreted several aspects of the Masorah (which records how many times each word appears in the Bible), demonstrating his ignorance in these mattrers. Our author rises to the defense

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