ISAAC BEN ELIAKIM OF POSEN
- ISAAC BEN ELIAKIM OF POSEN
- ISAAC BEN ELIAKIM OF POSEN (17th century), Yiddish
moralist and author. Isaac wrote Lev Tov (Prague, 1620), an
ethical-religious work in 20 chapters, providing rules for prayer and
correct observance of mitzvot, and proper behavior for home
and synagogue. It was reprinted with additions by Ḥayyim b. Jacob Orbach
(Cracow, 1641). Unlike other Yiddish ethical works, Lev Tov
was addressed to both men and women. It counseled the men to honor their
wives – since they educate the children to keep a Jewish home – and,
despite a traditional view of gender relations, stressed that men and
women have equal rights. This work became very popular but was
criticized in the anonymous Yiddish book, Hasoges
(Hassagot; Amsterdam, c. 1710). Isaac was apparently
attracted to Kabbalah. From Venice, moses zacuto sent him his
treatise on the laws of writing Torah scrolls, Tikkun
Soferim, for approval (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Opp. 554,
which also contains Isaac's reply).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fuerst, Bibliotheca, 2 (1863), 140f; Zinberg, Sifrut, 4 (1958), 82f.; M.
Erik, Geshikhte fun der Yidisher Literatur (1923), 294–301.
ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Winter and S. Wünsche,
Juedische Literatur, 3 (1896), 541–2; J.C. Frakes, Early
Yiddish Texts: 1100 – 1750 (2004), 536–40.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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