Menasseh ben Israel, one of the Amsterdam Jewish community’s most prominent seventeenth-century members, was a prolific author who published many books on a wide variety of subjects and in many different languages. The present article presents a comprehensive analysis of his halakhic manual Thesouro dos Dinim, written in Portuguese. Since this manual was inspired by other halakhic texts, modern scholarship has treated it as one of his less original works and very few studies make any reference to it. However, a systematic investigation of this text provides important insight into his intellectual world, including the religious and cultural positions he adopted, in what was a unique community, largely comprised of former Iberian conversos who returned to normative Judaism in the western Sephardic Diaspora. This study places the Thesouro dos Dinim in its particular historical context and elucidates various aspects of its didactic character. In contrast to its sources, and in particular to the Shulḥan ‘Arukh, Menasseh ben Israel’s manual facilitated the education of the community’s new members by including not only legal details but also additional explanations of the law’s motives, origins, and connections to both the biblical and the rabbinic traditions.

梅纳塞·本·以色列（Menasseh be Israel）是阿姆斯特丹犹太人社区最杰出的17世纪成员之一，是一位多产的作家，他出版了许多书籍，涉及各种主题，并使用多种不同的语言。本文对用葡萄牙语撰写的他的希腊语手册Thesouro dos Dinim进行了全面分析。由于本手册是受其他伊斯兰文字启发的，因此现代学者将其视为他的较不原创的作品之一，很少有研究对此加以参考。但是，对该文本进行系统的研究可提供对他的知识世界的重要见解，包括他在一个独特的社区（主要由前伊比利亚对话者组成）中所采用的宗教和文化立场他回到了西方犹太传播者中的规范犹太教。这项研究将Thesouro dos Dinim置于其特定的历史背景下，并阐明了其教学性质的各个方面。与其来源不同，尤其是与舒兰·阿鲁克（Shulan'Arukh）相比，梅纳西·本·以色列（Menasseh ben Israel）的手册不仅提供了法律细节，而且还对法律的动机，渊源以及与圣经的联系进行了补充说明，从而促进了社区新成员的教育。和犹太教的传统。