Or la-yesharim (Light for the Righteous)

Zeraḥ Eidlitz

1766

To explain the verse with which we started, we will set forth another thesis. It is a custom in Israel—and custom has the status of Torah—for preachers to travel from city to city to rebuke the people. Many of the ignorant masses err by not heeding their message because these preachers accept money for their sermons. The fools say that the…

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Zeraḥ Eidlitz

ca. 1720–1786

A rabbi, preacher, and member of the bet din in Prague, Zeraḥ Eidlitz was a student of the controversial rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz. Although Eidlitz wrote a Hebrew- and Yiddish-language work on mathematics and did not disparage secular education, he considered it inferior to Torah-centered learning. Eidlitz was accused of Sabbatianism by Jacob Emden. A collection of fourteen of Eidlitz’s sermons was printed as Or la-yesharim.

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