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(REFORM JUDAISM).  Loewenstamm, Avraham ben Aryeh Loeb. Tzeror HaChaim [“The Bond of Life”: Nine Responses to the Innovations of the Reform Movement] FIRST EDITION. Opening pages of subscribers / Prenumeranten bound-in upside-down. Printed on thicker paper. ff. (8), 81, (1). Contemporary boards. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 2480. Amsterdam, David Proops, 1820. Protests the dramatic changes introduced by the Hamburg Temple to traditional synagogue practices. Decries such refoms as: The presence of an organ for musical accompaniment, the abolishment of the recitation of the Amidah and other standard formula to the prayers, converting Aschkenazic custom to Sephardic, praying in the vernacular and while bareheaded, mingling genders during services, and most dramatically - radically eliminating all prayers seeking an era of messianic redemption.