The Rabbi and the Rebels: A Pamphlet on the Ḥerem by Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca

Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, the head rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, published a pamphlet in 1680 that addressed the laws of the herem. This Exhortation, as he called it, urged his readers to restore a general sense of gravity to the ban, arguing more specifically that...

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Main Author: Albert, Anne Oravetz (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2014
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2014, Volume: 104, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-191
Further subjects:B Amsterdam
B lay leadership
B Excommunication
B Politics
B Herem
B Rabbis
B kahal
B Early Modern
B rabbinic authority
B Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
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