Creator Bio
Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
1579–1654
Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was born in Wallerstein, North Swabia. He was a student of the Maharal of Prague and a member of the rabbinic court of Prague from about 1598 to 1624. Heller served as rabbi in Nikolsburg, Vienna, Prague, Niemirów, Włodzimierz, and, finally, Kraków for the last decade or so of his life. Heller is perhaps best known for his commentary on the Mishnah, Tosafot (Tosefet) Yom Tov (1614–1617). In 1629, he was accused of blasphemy against Christianity, which led to his imprisonment in Vienna, although he was later released. Megilat evah (Scroll of Enmity), an autobiographical text written around 1645, recalls these experiences, as well as other events of his life.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Megilat evah (Scroll of Enmity)
I had been living in tranquility in my home, refreshed in my sanctuary, my palace, in the holy congregation of Prague for some twenty-eight years after they had chosen me from the assembly to be a…
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Tsurat bet ha-mikdash (Shape of the Temple Sanctuary)
The Lord to the prophet Ezekiel (may he rest in peace): you, son of man, show the House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the…
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Tosafot Yom Tov (The Additions of Yom Tov)
“Moses received the Torah from Sinai” [m. Avot 1:1]:
R. [Ovadiah] from Bartenura has explained this to mean “from the One revealed at Sinai.” And there, when God revealed Himself at Sinai, Moses…