. English: Azharah Aharonah (Final Warning), Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk [Amsterdam, 11 Sivan 5511 (4 June 1751)]. The controversy over the alleged Sabbatianism of Jonathan Eybeschuetz engendered numerous publications of a polemical nature, both in book form and as broadsheets such as the present lot. Though the first attack on Eybeschuetz had come from Jacob Emden, by far the most important rabbinical figure involved in the fray was Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk, Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt on Main and generally recognized as the senior and most authoritative rabbi in an age of rabbinic titans. Eybeschuet
. English: Azharah Aharonah (Final Warning), Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk [Amsterdam, 11 Sivan 5511 (4 June 1751)]. The controversy over the alleged Sabbatianism of Jonathan Eybeschuetz engendered numerous publications of a polemical nature, both in book form and as broadsheets such as the present lot. Though the first attack on Eybeschuetz had come from Jacob Emden, by far the most important rabbinical figure involved in the fray was Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk, Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt on Main and generally recognized as the senior and most authoritative rabbi in an age of rabbinic titans. Eybeschuetz was widely acknowledged as being among the greatest Talmudists of the generation. As long as the accusations against him were the product of Jacob Emden, a man of lesser renown, who also had a not undeserved reputation for disrespect of certain prominent rabbinical figures, Eybeschuetz was content to allow his pupils to answer the charges on his behalf. When one of these students, Haim of Lublin, led the movement to excommunicate Emden, the battle lines were drawn. On 11 Sivan 5511 (4 June 1751), in what is written as if it were a private letter to Eybeschuetz, Rabbi Falk, a longtime opponent of the Sabbatian heresy, indicates that he had previously written privately to Eybeschuetz on two separate occasions in an effort to defuse the situation. The purpose of the private correspondence, says Falk, was to avoid 'the further desecration of God's name' amongst both Jews and Gentiles and to effect a reconciliation between Emden and Eybeschuetz. Falk reports however, that no response from Eybeschuetz had been forthcoming. After expounding on the heretical nature of the amulets, Falk takes Eybeschuetz to task not only for 'ignoring my advice to quell this dispute, but you rather fanned the flames by following the advice of children,' specifically alluding to the meddling of Eybeschuetz' student Haim of Lublin, whose inferiority relative to Emden, he emphasizes in both Talmudic and
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