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Yashresh Yaakov, on the topic of Hebrew grammar in prayer texts, and a polemic regarding the widespread errors in the printed siddurim, by R. Yaakov Babani of Safed. "Nuremberg" [Altona, 1768]. The date of printing on the title page is 5528 (1768), but the approbations are dated Kislev 5529. The book contains the approbations of R. Yaakov ben Avraham (Yechizkiah) Basan, the Sephardi rabbi of Hamburg, and R. David of Berlin, the Ashkenazi rabbi of the Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbek communities. The author mentioned on the title page is R. Yaakov Babani, emissary of Safed, who resided in Hamburg in 1768 (see Yaari, Emissaries of Eretz Israel, pp. 449-450). However, it is evident from the book itself that it was written by a different author. This was noted by the Chida, who writes that the true author paid R. Yaakov Babani to be cited as author. See Chida, Yosef Ometz (Livorno, 1788, section 10): "R. Yaakov Babani, who is cited as the author of the Yashresh Yaakov pamphlet, is not the true author. The truth is that a different grammarian, who was afraid to use his own name, paid R. Yaakov Babani to be cited as author". R. Binyamin Espinoza also made the same point in his Yesod HaKiyum, where he wrote that R. Yaakov Babani was not the true author, but rather "an anonymous author… who is hiding behind him [R. Yaakov Babani]… as we have heard from those who speak the truth" (Yesod HaKiyum by R. Binyamin Espinoza of Tunis and Livorno, printed in 1772 to counteract this work. Printed recently from the manuscript: Kiryat Sefer, 2005). Most rabbis and researchers (including R. Chananel Neppi, R. M. S. Ghirondi, Shadal, Ben-Yaakov, Friedberg) posit that the true author is the poet R. Avraham Yechizkiah Basan, father of the first approbator of the book. However, the editors of the republished volume, "Yashresh Yaakov – Yesod HaKiyum" (Kiryat Sefer, 2005), argue in their introduction that the true author was R. Yaakov Basan himself, who wrote an approbation to his own work. R. Yaakov Basan was the rabbi of the Sephardi community in Hamburg, and previously a scholar in Amsterdam. He was the proofreader and printer of Mesillat Yesharim (Amsterdam, 1740), whose author, Ramchal, describes him as "a man after my own heart… my rabbi and teacher… the great R. Yaakov ben Avraham Basan, may his light shine". This work was sharply criticized by many Torah scholars and leaders who did not approve of the author's suggested changes to the accepted Hebrew grammar and pronunciation. The first to write a composition refuting this work was R. Binyamin Espinoza, a scholar of Tunis and Livorno (died 1776). His work "Yesod HaKiyum" (1772) refutes each claim and proof of "Yashresh Yaakov". The Chida dedicated Responsa 10 in his work "Yosef Ometz" against this work, and writes "when Yashresh Yaakov was published the great scholar and grammarian R. Binyamin Espinoza was still alive… and he wrote the great work Yesod HaKiyum for the honor and glory of G-d's name. This work rebuts the theories of Yashresh Yaakov, and R. Binyamin wrote that it is not to be relied upon…". Several corrections in Sephardic Rashi script (possibly by the author himself). 39 leaves. 16.5 cm. High-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Slight damage to the inner margins of leaves 3-4. Early binding, half parchment. 328. ספר אור הישר - אמשטרדם, תקכ"ט - הפולמוס על כשרות "הגט מקליווא" - הקדשה עצמית על קבלת הספר מאת עורך הספר רבי שמעון מקופנהגן ספר אור הישר, שאלות ותשובות, פסקים וכתבים משנות תקכ"ו-תקכ"ח אודות שאלת "הגט מקליווא". בעריכת רבי אהרן שמעון מקופנהגן ובון, "סופר ונאמן דמדינת קלוניא". אמשטרדם, [תקכ"ט 1769]. מהדורה ראשונה. מאמרים רבים נכתבו על פולמוס אותו הגט, שנעשה ע"י רבי ישראל ליפשיץ רבה של קליווא. היה זה ויכוח הלכתי נרחב שהרעיש את העולם היהודי באותו דור, והיו מעורבים בו גדולי הרבנים מארצות שונות. בספר שלפנינו התפרסמו תשובות מגדולי אותו הדור על דיני הגט. תשובות שהפכו לנכסי צאן ברזל של הפסיקה ההלכתית בבתי הדין במשך כל הדורות. בדף שלפני השער רישום בעלות והקדשה עצמית על ק