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- Title
The Rabbi and the Rebels: A Pamphlet on the Ḥerem by Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca.
- Authors
ORAVETZ ALBERT, ANNE
- Abstract
The article discusses the 1680 pamphlet "Exortaçaõ paraque os tementes do Senhor na observança dos preceitos de sua Sancta Ley, naõ cayaõ em peccado por falta da conviniente inteligencia" ("An Exhortation to God-Fearers who Observe the Holy Law That They Should Not Sin for Lack of Proper Information"), by Rabbi Isaac Aboab de Fonseca. It is said that the pamphlet was part of a dispute over lay control of the ḥerem (ban of excommunication) in an Amsterdam, Netherlands Jewish congregation.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; EXCOMMUNICATION (Jewish law); EXORTACAO paraque os tementes do Senhor na observanca dos preceitos de sua Sancta Ley, nao cayao em peccado por falta da conviniente inteligencia (Book); DE Fonseca, Isaac Aboab; JEWS; JEWISH history; JEWISH laity; HISTORY; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
Jewish Quarterly Review, 2014, Vol 104, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0021-6682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jqr.2014.0011