Jacob Emden, also known as Ya'avetz (June 4, 1697 – April 19, 1776), was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed traditional Judaism in the...
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Emden (German pronunciation: [ˈɛmdn̩] ) is an independent city and seaport in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems. It is the main...
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Sabbateans (section The Emden-Eybeschutz controversy)
dispute between Rabbi Jacob Emden (Ya'avetz) and Jonathan Eybeschuetz. Additionally, a successor movement known as Frankism, led by Jacob Frank, began in Eastern...
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(née Littman) and Morris Javits, a descendant of the 18th-century rabbi Jacob Emden who was known as the Ya'avetz, which was later anglicized to Javits....
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Jewish philosophy (section Jacob Emden)
Shem of Chelm. Rabbi Jacob Emden was a student of his father Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi a rabbi in Amsterdam. Emden, a steadfast Talmudist...
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modern Jewish thinkers, starting in the 18th century with the Orthodox Jacob Emden and the reformer Moses Mendelssohn, have sympathetically argued that...
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Nachmanides made the same point. Jacob ben Meir (11th century), Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin (17th century), and Jacob Emden (18th century) support this view...
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Hamburg and Wandsbek. He is well known for his conflict with Jacob Emden in the Emden–Eybeschutz Controversy. Eybeschutz's father Nosson Nota was the...
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refrain, Yedid Nefesh/Soulmate, in the 18th century prayer book of Rabbi Jacob Emden, he records its official title as: "Song of Awakening of the Soul-Toward...
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Hebrew). Jacob Emden Sheilat Yaabetz vol. 1 chap. 155 Moses Sofer responsa 291 Chaim Hezekiah Medini Sdei chemed maarechet chof, chap. 92 page 186 Emden, Sheilat...
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