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...

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...

dispute between Rabbi Jacob Emden (Ya'avetz) and Jonathan Eybeschuetz. Additionally, a successor movement known as Frankism, led by Jacob Frank, began in Eastern...

Nachmanides made the same point. Jacob ben Meir (11th century), Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin (17th century), and Jacob Emden (18th century) support this view...

"Yeshu" passages had anything to do with Christianity. Jacob ben Meir (1100-1171) and Jacob Emden (1697-1776) also took this position. In the censorship...

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...

"supplanted" Mortimer J. Cohen's 1937 book Jacob Emden: A Man of Controversy, as the most authoritative source on Emden. Schacter is an historian of intellectual...

(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....

(2007). "The Prague Sojourn of Rabbi Jacob Emden as Depicted in His Autobiography Megilat Sefer, On the Aschkenaz-Emden-Wilner-Offner Family History and the...

modern Jewish thinkers, starting in the 18th century with the Orthodox Jacob Emden and the reformer Moses Mendelssohn, have sympathetically argued that...

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...

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...

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...

Emden Embden Goose or Emden, a breed of goose Emden Deep, the deepest part of the Philippine Trench, named after the German cruiser Emden Jacob Emden...

between Jacob Emden and Jonathan Eybeschütz in a debate—"The Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy"—that "had disrupted Jewish communal life for many years". Emden had...

and 18th centuries there was a campaign by Ashkenazi rabbis such as Jacob Emden and the Vilna Gaon to encourage final stress in accordance with the stress...

Jewish thinkers, such as Nahmanides, Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, and Jacob Emden, strongly objected to the idea that concubines should be forbidden. Despite...

was reported by a Christian author, Christoph Arnold, in 1674. Rabbi Jacob Emden (d. 1776) elaborated on the story in a book published in 1748: "As an...

(1690–1764), was a Talmudist, Halachist, and Kabbalist who died in Altona. Jacob Emden (1697–1776), was a Talmudist, Halachist, and Kabbalist who lived most...

"Sha'ar Efrayim" and grandfather of Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi. According to Jacob Emden, the son of the aforementioned Tzvi Ashkenazi, the Golem is said to have...

writings written by people of various theological opinions. According to Jacob Emden, it was compiled by Abraham Abulafia. It draws heavily on Sefer Yetzirah...

problematic. Rabbi Jacob Emden discusses a medal struck in honor of Rabbi Eliezer Horowitz that features Horowitz's portrait. Emden ruled this violated...

Other rabbis, such as Nachmanides, Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, and Jacob Emden, strongly object to the idea that concubines should be forbidden.[citation...

the heathen desirous of entering the Church. The 18th-century rabbi Jacob Emden hypothesized that Jesus, and Paul after him, intended to convert the...

grammatica ebraica", Giornale di Metafisica, 3 (2009), pp. 625–61. Books Adler, Jacob (2014). "Mortality of the soul from Alexander of Aphrodisias to Spinoza"...

Kabbalist tradition, the Ramchal, most of Hassidism, the Vilna Gaon and Jacob Emden. Hassidism, although incorporating the kabbalistic worldview and its...

Traditionally, Judaism holds that Yahweh—that is, the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the national god of the Israelites—delivered them from slavery in Egypt...

population insisted that beards should be worn. It was later remarked by Jacob Emden that the Jewish population in western Europe had objected to these regulations...

(d. 1648) in his Ari Nohem, by Jean Morin (d. 1659), and by Jacob Emden (d. 1776). Emden—who may have been familiar with Modena through Morin's arguments—devoted...

133, 157, 211, 259, 278, 282, 315, 324, 339, 388, 465-466. Jacobs & Broydé 1906. Jacobs & Broydé 1906; Kraemer 2007. On the microcosm–macrocosm analogy...