Alilot Devarim
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Sefer Alilot Devarim ( or 'Book of Accusations' ) is a 15th-century rationalist satirical polemic by the pseudonymous "Rabbi Palmon, whose father Peleth had no pedigree, whose mother was the daughter of so-and-so". It harshly critiques halakhic interpretation, Kabbalah, magic, superstition, the commentary of Rashi, and the Ashkenazi rabbinical tradition of pilpul.
Sefer Alilot Devarim ( or 'Book of Accusations' ) is a 15th-century rationalist satirical polemic by the pseudonymous "Rabbi Palmon, whose father Peleth had no pedigree, whose mother was the daughter of so-and-so". It harshly critiques halakhic interpretation, Kabbalah, magic, superstition, the commentary of Rashi, and the Ashkenazi rabbinical tradition of pilpul.
See also
Jewish polemics and apologetics in the Middle Ages Maimonidean Controversy
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