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Moreh Nevochei Ha'Zeman, by Reb Nachman Krochmal - Basic, Important Book of the Jewish Enlightenment - Lemberg ...

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Moreh Nevochei Ha'Zeman, by Reb Nachman Krochmal - Basic, Important Book of the Jewish Enlightenment - Lemberg, 1851 - First Edition - Extremely Rare!
"A book that teaches pure faith and Jewish wisdom. Authored by Rabbi Nachman Ha'Cohen Krochmal … published by Yom Tov Lippmann Tzuntz of Berlin". Lemberg, 1851. First, extremely rare edition. Two title pages (the second one in Latin).
The book contains seventeen chapters.

Nachman HaKohen Krochmal (1785-1840) was a Jewish philosopher, theologian, and historian. He was one of the outstanding members of the Jewish Enlightenment and one of the founders of the Chochmat Yisrael movement.
Krochmal exerted a great influence on the development of Jewish Enlightenment, the research of Jewish history, Jewish literature and Jewish philosophy in two ways: by the circle of students he gathered around him, who later became outstanding members of the Jewish Enlightenment in Galicia, Austria and Eastern Europe and by his book, "Moreh Nevochei Ha'Zman", which presented a comprehensive philosophical and historical perception of Jewish history. The book inspired later philosophers and rabbis (material attached).
He began to write the book after insisting pleading by his students and friends, most likely at the beginning of the 1830's. His students called the book "the new Moreh Nevochim". He did not complete the book and before his death in 1840 asked the well-known researcher Yom Tov Lippmann Tzuntz to edit and publish it. The book was indeed published by Tzuntz in 1851.
Professor Eliezer Schweid describes Krochmal as "the most methodical, influential Jewish philosopher of the Jewish Enlightenment". Rabbi David Cohen, the "Nazir", praises him by calling him: "father of the history of religious-Jewish philosophy".
Professor Eliezer Schweid wrote: "it was Reb Nachman Krochmal who, for the first time, brought the problem of Judaism in modern history up for methodical philosophical-historical discussion. It was a monumental enterprise".
Krochmal himself was an observant Jew; however, some of his students used his writings to undermine the importance of observing the Mitzvot. Indeed, there were rabbis, therefore, who pointed at sources in his book as the buds of confusion between Judaism and Christianity,

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