| Description |
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Locus
| 2r-101r |
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Author
| Balbo, Mikhaʾel ben Shabtai Kohen, n. 1411 (internal) |
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Other name
| Ashkenazi, Mosheh ben Shemuʾel Kohen, sec. XV, recipient |
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Title
| ויכוח בין מיכאל כהן ובין משה כהן על העניין גלגול ואגרות על עניין היבום |
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Supplied title
| Polemic by Michael b. Shabbetai Balbo against Moses b. Samuel ha-Kohen Ashkenazi for his rejection of the doctrine of metempsychosis |
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General note
| The polemic took place in Candia in 1466. Cf. E. Gottlieb, ויכוח הגילגול בקנדיאה במאה הט"ו "Sefunot", xi (1971-78), pp. 43-66 (reprinted in Gottlieb's "Mekḥarim", pp. 370-396). Cf. MS Vat. ebr. 105. |
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General note
| This manuscript includes Ashkenazi's reply to Balbo's last letter, not found in MS Vat. ebr. 105. |
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General note
| The title page is not original and was added to the manuscript at the Vatican Library. |
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General note
| On this polemic cf. A. Ravitzky, “The God of the philosophers and the God of the Kabbalists; a controversy in fifteenth century Crete.” "History and Faith" (Amsterdam 1997), pp. 115-153 (reprinted in "Studies in Jewish Manuscripts", Tübingen 1999, pp. 139-170). |
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