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Ma'ase Tuvia. Jessnitz, [1721] R' Azriel Hildesheimer Copy - Ma'ase Tuvia. Jessnitz, [1721] R' Azriel Hildesheimer Copy Ma'ase Tuvia. The tenets of faith and the creation of the world. Cosmography, astronomy, geography, world and Jewish history. All integrated with the 13 principles of faith. Jessnitz, [1721]. Authored by Rabbi Tuvia HaRofei of Metz. Tens of original woodcuts, different than what was printed in the first Venice edition of [1707]. Some of the woodcuts on entire pages. A large portion with human and animal busts. Leaves 15-16 feature the ”Zichron L'Vnei Yisrael” booklet about the Sabbatean episode that took place around that time; testimony and letters from Italian Rabbis and more regarding Shabtai Zvi and Nathan of Gaza. Three sections, each with a separate title page. R' Azriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899), a leader in his times, was a disciple of the Aruch LaNer and of R. Yitzchak Bernays of Hamburg. He served as rabbi of Eisenstadt between 1851-1869 where he founded an innovative yeshiva integrating secular studies according to the Torah with Derech Eretz doctrine. This move drew opposition and criticism both from the Reform movement and from certain sects of Orthodox Judaism. However, the leading rabbis of Hungary and Germany recognized his greatness and backed his yeshiva. In 1869, he was appointed rabbi of Berlin, where he established the Rabbinical seminary, standing at the helm of Orthodox Jewry in Germany. חסר דפים מחלק שלישי עם צילומים