Portrait of a Seventeenth Century Rabbi
Davis, Joseph
Description:
New. 320 pp. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller (1578-1654), author of the famous
Mishnah commentary Tosafot yom tov, was a major talmudist, a disciple
of the legendary Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, and himself the
distinguished chief rabbi of Prague and Cracow. The time in which he
lived began as a ?golden age' for the Jews of Prague and the Jews of
Poland, an age of prosperity and the rise of Jewish mysticism. During
Heller's lifetime, however, the golden age changed to darkness, and
prosperity gave way to ...
Languages: English
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