Ezer ha-Dat (Support of Faith) is a polemical anti-Christian tractate by the fourteenth-century Spanish philosopher and scholar, Isaac Pollegar. Ezer ha-Dat, Pollegar’s most important work, was written to answer the criticisms of certain schools of thought against Judaism. In an effort to refute the arguments of the apostate Abner of Burgos, whom he had befriended in his youth, Pollegar disavows the latter's christological interpretation of the aggadah by claiming that the aggadot are not binding and need not be taken literally. In the first and main section, the author sets forth the chief principles of Judaism, such as the superiority of Moses and the Torah, the world to come and the Messiah. The second section consists of a dialogue between an opponent of philosophical studies and someone who believes that philosophical studies should be pursued, and concludes with the author's reconciliation of Judaism and philosophy. In the third section, Pollegar opposes the view that human affairs are guided by the influence of the heavenly bodies. Further on in the work, Pollegar mounts an attack on various kinds of pseudo-sciences which conflict with true philosophy; included in this group are kabbalists and believers in sorcery. Other hands added corrections and glosses in the margins.
ProvenanceThe manuscript was copied for the proselyte Abraham. On the flyleaves, the same Abraham signed his name in Hebrew and Latin, Abraham natus Prinz, Livorno — Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 94)
Physical Description[2] 92 [2] = 96 leaves on paper, 6 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches; 159 x 108 mm, written in Sephardic semi-cursive script in black ink, catchwords, Hebrew foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil; fols. 1-89, 10, and 85-92 remargined, some loss of text to fol. 92, corners of 2 leaves repaired, dampstaining throughout, initial blanks detached, blank endleaves browned, frayed and remargined. Full red morocco; old tears to boards.
LiteratureHirschfeld (ms. no. 285); published with an English summary by G. Belasco in 1906, edited on the basis of the six extant complete manuscripts of this text by J. S. Levinger (Tel Aviv, 1984). Levinger described this manuscript on pp. 10-11 and proved that this manuscript was copied from a manuscript formerly in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau (Ms. 57) or from an identical copy
Ezer ha-Dat (Support of Faith) is a polemical anti-Christian tractate by the fourteenth-century Spanish philosopher and scholar, Isaac Pollegar. Ezer ha-Dat, Pollegar’s most important work, was written to answer the criticisms of certain schools of thought against Judaism. In an effort to refute the arguments of the apostate Abner of Burgos, whom he had befriended in his youth, Pollegar disavows the latter's christological interpretation of the aggadah by claiming that the aggadot are not binding and need not be taken literally. In the first and main section, the author sets forth the chief principles of Judaism, such as the superiority of Moses and the Torah, the world to come and the Messiah. The second section consists of a dialogue between an opponent of philosophical studies and someone who believes that philosophical studies should be pursued, and concludes with the author's reconciliation of Judaism and philosophy. In the third section, Pollegar opposes the view that human affairs are guided by the influence of the heavenly bodies. Further on in the work, Pollegar mounts an attack on various kinds of pseudo-sciences which conflict with true philosophy; included in this group are kabbalists and believers in sorcery. Other hands added corrections and glosses in the margins.
ProvenanceThe manuscript was copied for the proselyte Abraham. On the flyleaves, the same Abraham signed his name in Hebrew and Latin, Abraham natus Prinz, Livorno — Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 94)
Physical Description[2] 92 [2] = 96 leaves on paper, 6 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches; 159 x 108 mm, written in Sephardic semi-cursive script in black ink, catchwords, Hebrew foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil; fols. 1-89, 10, and 85-92 remargined, some loss of text to fol. 92, corners of 2 leaves repaired, dampstaining throughout, initial blanks detached, blank endleaves browned, frayed and remargined. Full red morocco; old tears to boards.
LiteratureHirschfeld (ms. no. 285); published with an English summary by G. Belasco in 1906, edited on the basis of the six extant complete manuscripts of this text by J. S. Levinger (Tel Aviv, 1984). Levinger described this manuscript on pp. 10-11 and proved that this manuscript was copied from a manuscript formerly in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau (Ms. 57) or from an identical copy
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