Solomon Petit
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Solomon Petit was a 13th-century French Tosafist who settled in Acre
, Palestine
, where he gathered a following of mystics and instigated a new campaign against the philosophical writings of Maimonidies. When the Exilarch
of Damascus, Yishai ben Chezkiah, learned of the renewed anti-Mainmonist agitation, he threatened Petit with excommunication, which was later invoked. Petit ignored the threats and set off on a mission to Europe to gather signatures from German rabbis endorsing his position.
Acre, Israel
Acre , is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. Acre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the country....
, Palestine
Palestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
, where he gathered a following of mystics and instigated a new campaign against the philosophical writings of Maimonidies. When the Exilarch
Exilarch
Exilarch refers to the leaders of the Diaspora Jewish community in Babylon following the deportation of King Jeconiah and his court into Babylonian exile after the first fall of Jerusalem in 597 BCE and augmented after the further deportations following the destruction...
of Damascus, Yishai ben Chezkiah, learned of the renewed anti-Mainmonist agitation, he threatened Petit with excommunication, which was later invoked. Petit ignored the threats and set off on a mission to Europe to gather signatures from German rabbis endorsing his position.