This article details a polemic among the rabbinical leadership of the Jewish community of Tripoli, Libya, in the late nineteenth century. At stake was an initiative of the community’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Eliyahu Bechor Hazzan, to change the traditional educational system to include secular topics and foreign language. The communal rabbis who opposed the idea wrote the rabbinical leadership of Jerusalem, requesting support in overturning Rabbi Hazzan’s proposal. This study details the issues at stake in this aspect of the infiltration of modernism into Jewish communities in Muslim countries and presents the letter written to the rabbinic authorities of the land of Israel that led Rabbi Hazzan to abandon his initiative and, later, to resign from his leadership post.

本文详细介绍了 19 世纪后期利比亚的黎波里犹太社区的拉比领导层之间的争论。该社区的精神领袖拉比 Eliyahu Bechor Hazzan 提出的一项倡议受到威胁，该倡议改变了传统的教育体系，将世俗主题和外语纳入其中。反对这个想法的社区拉比写信给耶路撒冷的拉比领导层，请求支持推翻拉比哈赞的提议。这项研究详细介绍了现代主义渗透到穆斯林国家的犹太社区这一方面的利害关系，并提出了写给以色列土地的拉比当局的信，这封信导致拉比哈赞放弃了他的倡议，后来辞职。他的领导职位。