Creator Bio
Simḥah Isaac ben Moses Lutski
1716–1760
Simḥah Isaac ben Moses (Simḥah Yitsḥak ben Mosheh) Lutski, born in Lutsk (Luck), Volhynia, was a writer, scholar, and spiritual leader who was known as “the Karaite Rashi.” A student of rabbinical literature and Kabbalah, in 1754 his wealthy patron Mordechai ben Berakhah invited him to lead the bet midrash in the Crimean Karaite community of Chufut-Kale. Lutski wrote about Karaite halakhah, theology, philosophy, and Kabbalah; he analyzed the split between Rabbinism and Karaism.
Content by Simḥah Isaac ben Moses Lutski
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Me’irat enayim (Light of the Eyes)
Simḥah Isaac ben Moses Lutski
There is a severe admonition addressed to every individual within Israel not to add any precept on his own initiative onto those precepts which are written in the Torah, and…