Portrait of the Tabernacle of Moses (1)
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)
Jacob Judah Leon Templo (1602–1675) was a rabbi in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Middelburg.
He came into contact with Millenarian theologians in Holland. His friendship with the Dutch poet and statesman Constantijn Huygens also brought him into contact with the courts of the House of Orange and the King of England.
Partly financed by the Millenarian Adam Boreel, Templo built a model of Solomon’s Temple, which he toured around Dutch fairs and showed at the Orange court. Adam Boreel also worked with Menasseh on editions of the Mishnah.
The accompanying illustrated book, written by Templo and titled ‘Retrato del Templo de Selomoh’ (Middelburg, 1642), became so popular that it was translated into Dutch, French, Latin, German and English. Templo himself translated it into Hebrew in 1650 as Tavnit Heikhal.
Templo later added a model of the desert tabernacle to his private museum. He described this model in the Retrato del tabernaculo de Moseh (Roth Collection 563). He died in Amsterdam while making a return trip from London in order to attend the dedication ceremony of the new Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue – a building which incorporated in reality the monumental buttresses underpinning his model of the Temple mount.
