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Nishmas Chaim, Drushim proving the immortality of the soul - With long and important glosses in the handwriting of Rabbi Yaakov Bacharach - Nishmas Chaim, Drushim proving the immortality of the soul - With long and important glosses in the handwriting of Rabbi Yaakov Bacharach Nishmas Chaim, Drushim proving the immortality of the soul and on the soul in general, authored by the great sage Rabbi Menasheh Ben Yisroel. Stettin, [1861]. Third edition. Sefer Nishmas Chaim, Drushim on the soul and its immortality, by Rabbi Menasheh Ben Yisroel. E. Shrentzel Press, Stettin, [1861]. The sage Rabbi Menasheh Ben Yisroel, one of the greatest sages of Amsterdam in his generation, lived several years in Brasil and England. Worked for removing the ban on the entrance of Jews to the British Island and even met with Oliver Cromwell for that. Had ties with many gentile scholars, who greatly appreciated him, including the Swedish Queen Christine. Yet he also wrote: ”ואני תפילות לאל לא עשיתי חכמות חיצוניות קבע”. Rabbi Jacob ben Moses Bachrach (1824 - 1896) was a noted apologist of Rabbinic Judaism. He was descended from Rabbi Yair Chayim Bacharach, and in turn from the Maharal of Prague. He received his earliest instruction from his grandfather, Judah Bachrach. For years he was superintendent of a Hebrew printing-establishment in Königsberg, where he edited, among other works, the Ṭurim of Jacob ben Asher, and added notes to the same. Later on he became manager of a distillery in Sevastopol, where he had the opportunity to develop into an assiduous student of Karaitic literature, and where he engaged in controversies with the representatives of the local Karaitic community. His works are chiefly devoted to a defense of rabbinical tradition against Karaism. In 1882 he went to Palestine in the interest of colonization.