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Bidding Information
Lot #    17336
Auction End Date    3/13/2007 12:05:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ya’anah ba-Esh
Title (Hebrew)    יענה באש
Author    [Polemic] R. Elijah Benamozegh
City    Livorno (Leghorn)
Publisher    Elijah Ben-Amozegh and Partner
Publication Date    1905
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 27 pp., 185:130 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa on the prohibition of the cremation of the dead by R. Elijah b. Abraham Benamozegh (1822–1900), Italian rabbi and philosopher. R. Benamozegh was born in Leghorn of Moroccan parents, members of a wealthy Moroccan family of merchants and rabbis. He served as rabbi in Leghorn and as professor of theology in the rabbinical school of that city, and wrote numerous works in Hebrew, French, and Italian, in which he attempted to present a systematic exposition and interpretation of the doctrines of Judaism, and to point out the affinities between Judaism and contemporary secular philosophy. R. Benamozegh was influenced by the culture of the Jews of Morocco and the East, in which the Kabbalah played an important role, and by the secular philosophy of his day, in particular by the Italian philosophers Rosmini-Serbati and Gioberti. He regarded the Kabbalah as an essential component of Judaism, defending it against the attacks of many of his contemporaries. Regarding Judaism as a synthesis of the universal eternal truths which are scattered throughout the religions, philosophies, and mythologies of other peoples, he believed that the study of Judaism was essential for the solution of the religious questions of mankind at large.
          
Paragraph 2    להשיב שואלנו דבר מטעם הק"ק יצ"ו על אודות מנהג שרפת המתים הנקרא קרימאציוני וכתבתי והרצתי הדברים לפני חכמי הישיבה הי"ו שעלו בהסכמח[!] ברוב מנין לקיים ולאשר את כל הכתוב בספר מאתי אליהו בן אמוזג ...
          
Reference
Description		    Friedberg 817.2; EJ; CD-EPI 0113026
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica