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LOT 222:
Moshe Mendelssohn - 'Jewish Law'. Berlin 1793
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Moshe Mendelssohn - 'Jewish Law'. Berlin 1793
Ritualgesetze der Juden : betreffend Erbschaften, Vormundschaftssachen, Testamente und Ehesachen, in so weit sie das Mein und Dein angehen / Entworfen von Moses Mendelssohn, auf Veranlassung und unter Aufsicht R. Hirschel Lewin. Moshe Mendelssohn's halakhic book on the law of wills, inheritance, custodian, and marriage law, supervised by Rabbi Herschel Levin. Berlin 1793. German.
The book "Laws of the Jews" (Ritualgesetze der Juden), written by Moshe Mendelssohn and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Levin, the chief rabbi of Berlin was initiated by the Prussian government, who asked the rabbi to compile a book in German on Jewish law on marriage and inheritance, after the government revoked authority The exclusive jurisdiction of the rabbis in this area and transferred it to the civil courts. This was the first time that an essay on the subject of 'halakhic' was written, which took into account the demands of the government and tried to adapt Jewish halakhah to the spirit of the times.
The book was written under the supervision of Rabbi Levin, rabbi of Berlin, who was the nephew of Rabbi Yaakov Emdin, who served as rabbi of London for a time. (Rabbi Levin left the rabbinate as a result of compromising trends among London Jewry, after serving as rabbi in Halberstadt and Mannheim, he was appointed rabbi of Berlin).
XX, 221 p. Old cardboard cover. condition good - very good.
