Or HaChaim, censure of theological speculation and study of philosophy, by R. Yosef Yaavetz, "the Chassid Yaavetz", with Maayan Ganim, commentary and expansions by Rebbe Tzvi Elimelech Shapiro, Av Beit Din of Dinov, author of Bnei Yissachar. Zhovkva, 1848. First edition of the Maayan Ganim commentary.

The author, R. Yosef Yaavetz (1440?-1508), a Spanish exile, asserts in this book that the expulsion resulted from Spanish Jewry's preoccupation with Greek philosophy, preferring it over Torah wisdom. His book Or HaChaim was first printed in Ferrara, 1554.
Maayan Ganim by the Bnei Yissachar is an animated polemical work. The main part is a caustic diatribe against the Haskalah movement – against Galician maskilim, Moses Mendelssohn and his writings, and their followers and prospective followers.
This is presumably the first work fiercely criticizing and denouncing not only Mendelssohn's works and translations but also Mendelssohn himself.

[1], 32, [2] leaves. Approx. 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Light wear and small open tears to margins of title page. Marginal worming to several leaves. Close trimming, slightly affecting text of one leaf. Stamps of the Szombathely Beit Midrash. Inscriptions. New binding.

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