A mystical treatise on the fear of God
Menasseh ben Israel, rabbi, scholar, philosopher, diplomat and Hebrew printer, 1604-1657
In the midst of history – Menasseh ben Israel’s mission to England
Apology for the honorable nation of the Jews and all the sons of Israel
The Lost tribes of Israel, rediscovered in South America
Short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England
A loving salutation to the seed of Abraham among the Jewes
Printing and Teaching Judaism
Menasseh ben Israel's Liturgical Bible: Pentateuch, Five Scrolls and the Prophetic Portions (1)
Menasseh ben Israel's Liturgical Bible: Pentateuch, Five Scrolls and the Prophetic Portions (2)
A mystical treatise on the fear of God
A Treasury of [religious] Laws which the people of Israel is obligated to know and keep
Fifty precious sermons by Amsterdam’s senior rabbi
"THEOLOGUS ET PHILOSOPHUS HEBRAEUS"
The first part of The Conciliador
Thirty problems concerning Creation
Three books on the resurrection of the dead (1)
Three books on the resurrection of the dead (2)
Three books on the resurrection of the dead (3)
Portrait of the Tabernacle of Moses (1)
Portrait of the Tabernacle of Moses (2)
Portrait of the Tabernacle of Moses (3)
Reshit Hokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom) was a popular ethical work by the Safed kabbalist Elijah ben Moses de Vidas (1518-1592). In it, he collected all the moral sentences scattered throughout the Talmud, Midrashim, and Zohar.
Menasseh translated the first part, concerning the fear of God, into Spanish (Roth Collection 889). Spanish was the learned vernacular, which the Portuguese Conversos had studied at university.
The woodcut title page arch is topped by the pelican feeding its young – a Christian symbol of the crucifixion and one of the symbols adopted by the Rosicrucian sect. It was adapted on one of the portals of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (1675). For the Jews of Amsterdam, the pelican feeding its three young symbolized the merger of the three synagogues of Amsterdam in 1639 into the united Spanish and Portuguese congregation.
