Fifty precious sermons by Amsterdam’s senior rabbi
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)
Saul Levi Mortera (1596–1660) was a senior Amsterdam rabbi, a famed preacher, and a teacher at Keter Torah. In 1656 he chaired the tribunal that excommunicated his former pupil Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677).
The 50 sermons by Mortera in this volume (Roth Collection 704) were published by his students, who selected them from among a corpus of 500.
The printer of this work was Immanuel Benvenisti, who was Menasseh ben Israel's most formidable competitor in the Hebrew printing business. Between 1641 and 1660, the Benvenisti press produced prayer-books, an edition of the Midrash Rabbah, and Alfasi's law code and the Shulchan Arukh: the two foremost Sephardi codifications of Jewish law.
The woodcut title pages incorporated Benvenisti's printer's mark as a coat of arms displaying a castle and lion surmounted by a star. This may have been meant to represent the Spanish kingdom of Castile and Leon. The title pages’ designs were widely imitated in Hebrew printing across Europe.
