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Ya'arot Devash Part II, R. Jonathan Eibeschutz, Vienna 1818

יערות דבש חלק ב ע"ח ה"ר עזריאל פולק אב"ד א"ש - Copy of R. Ezriel Pollak

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  • Lot Number 53428
  • Title (English) Ya'arot Devash Part II
  • Title (Hebrew) יערות דבש חלק ב ע"ח ה"ר עזריאל פולק אב"ד א"ש
  • Note Copy of R. Ezriel Pollak lead dayyan and cantor of Eisenstadt
  • Author R. Jonathan Eibeschutz
  • City Vienna
  • Publisher Anton Schmid
  • Publication Date 1818
  • Estimated Price - Low 300
  • Estimated Price - High 600

  • Item # 2390232
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Description

Physical Description:

[1], 95 ff.; , quarto, 255:205 mm., old hands of previous owners, light age and damp staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary leather over boards, rubbed.

The copy of R. Ezriel Pollak (1803-1887) lead dayyan and cantor of Eisenstadt, pupil and devoted disciple of the Chasam Sofer. (Talmudei pp. 394-395). He served in Eisenstadt for 44 years! And by decent to his grandson

R. Abraham b. Yitchok Figdor of Sarwar, Hungary.

 

Detailed Description:   

R. Jonathan b. Nathan Nata Eibeschutz (1690/95–1764), talmudist and kabbalist, a child prodigy, studied in Poland, Moravia, and Prague. In his youth, after the death of his father, he studied in Prossnitz under R. Meir Eisenstadt and R. Eliezer ha-Levi Ettinger, his uncle, and in Vienna under R. Samson Wertheimer. He married the daughter of R. Isaac Spira, the av bet din of Bunzlau. After traveling for some time he settled in Prague in 1715, and in time became head of the yeshivah and a famous preacher. After the death of R. David Oppenheim (1736), he was appointed dayyan of Prague. Elected rabbi of Metz in 1741, he subsequently became rabbi of the “Three Communities,” Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek (1750). Both in Metz and in Altona he had many disciples and was considered a great preacher.

His position in the Three Communities, however, was undermined when the dispute broke out concerning his suspected leanings toward Shabbateanism. This controversy accompanied R. Eybeschuetz throughout his life, and the quarrel had repercussions in every community from Holland to Poland. His main opponent was R. Jacob Emden, also a famous talmudist and a potential rival in the candidature to the rabbinate of the Three Communities. The quarrel developed into a great public dispute which divided the rabbis of the day. While most of the German rabbis opposed R. Eybeschuetz, his support came from the rabbis of Poland and Moravia. A fruitless attempt at mediation was made by R. Ezekiel Landau, rabbi of Prague. Most of R. Eybeschuetz' own community was loyal to him and confidently accepted his refutation of the charges made by his opponent, but dissension reached such a pitch that both sides appealed to the authorities in Hamburg and the government of Denmark for a judicial ruling. The king favored R. Eybeschuetz and ordered new elections, which resulted in his reappointment. After his reelection as rabbi of the Three Communities, some rabbis of Frankfort, Amsterdam, and Metz challenged him to appear before them to reply to the suspicions raised against him. R. Eybeschuetz refused, and when the matter was brought before the Council of the Four Lands in 1753, the council issued a ruling in his favor. In 1760 the quarrel broke out once more when some Shabbatean elements were discovered among the students of R. Eybeschuetz' yeshiva. At the same time his younger son, Wolf, presented himself as a Shabbatean prophet, with the result that the yeshiva was closed.

 

Hebrew Description:

..נדפס פעם שלישית ... חלק [א]-ב.

מעבר לשער של חלק א: "הקדמה מבן אחיו ותלמידו של המחבר".

 

Reference:

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 # 000120486 ; EJ; M. A. Perlmutter, R. Yehonatan Eybeschuetz ve-Yahaso la-Shabbeta'ut (1947); Mifal ha-Bibliografyah ha-Ivrit, Hoveret le-Dugmah (1964), 13–24