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Sefer Drush Tefillas Yesharim by Rabbi Yaakov Emden Including Moral Lessons, Altona

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Sefer Drush Tefillas Yesharim by Rabbi Yaakov Emden Including Moral Lessons, Altona 1755

First edition
sefer Drush Tefillas Yesharim authored by Rabbi Yaakov Emden and published in his home in Altona, 1755.

Among his words Rabbi Yaakov bemoans the deficiencies of the generation and reproaches in his usual sharp manner:
"…they spend most of their time busy with books of Homer and matters of desire and apostasy which come out daily from beneath the rollers of the press… they shave the hairs of their heads and destroy the hair of their beards. The holy cease to emanate from them, and instead of tzitzis and tefillin they grow hair and foreign wigs…" He also rebukes the women
"who are meticulous in the embellishments of their garments that it be first class in style like the constitutions of the nations."

There is a section with
mussar regarding humility titled "Chalei Kessem" which begins on leaf 22a.

28 leaves | 19 cm | Deficiency and reinforcements at the edge of bottom margins, few reinforcements and added paper in the title and last pages | Very rare

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