When Rabbi Fränkel was called to Frankfurt/Oder in 1743 and immediately afterwards to Berlin as Chief Rabbi, his pupil followed him to the Talmudschule in Berlin, which was newly founded in 1742. When Mendelssohn was about thirteen years old, the curvature of his back became noticeable. Around 1739, the young Mendelssohn changed to the class of David Fränkel (1707-1762), Chief Rabbi of Dessau, an influential scholar who, after almost 200 years, reissued the Führer der Unschlüssigen, a major work of the important Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1138-1204). Despite the modest conditions at home, the child was carefully educated and recognized as highly gifted at an early age. Moses is said to have possessed excellent knowledge in Talmud studies at the age of ten. When Moses was born, his father was already 47 years old. Moses Mendelssohn grew up in a poor family in Dessau, Principality of Anhalt, and was educated by his father, Mendel Heymann, active as a Sofer as well as a Dessau community writer and primary school teacher. – Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783) Moses Mendelssohn – Early Years The one abandons the disobedient and expels him the other receives him in its bosom and seeks to instruct, or at least to console him.” The state has physical power and uses it when necessary the power of religion is love and benificence. The state prescribes laws, religion commandments. “The state gives orders and coerces, religion teaches and persuades.
Moses Mendelssohn’s descendants include also the famous composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn. Haskalah was a movement among European Jews that advocated adopting enlightenment values, pressing for better integration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew language, and Jewish history. On September 6, 1729, German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn was born, who inspired the Haskalah movement of Jewish Enlightenment in the 18th and 19th century. Lessing and Lavater as guests in the home of Moses Mendelssohn.
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