Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, known as Ramchal, was a controversial and prolific Italian philosopher and Mekubal.
According to the linked Wikipedia article, after disseminating Kabbalah in Italy, "leading Italian rabbinical authorities were highly suspicious and threatened to excommunicate him." Furthermore, this biography also mentions that "[w]hen word got out of Luzzatto's messages, the rabbis of Venice became alarmed, considering such mystical activities dangerous."
What are the names of these Rabbis, and do we have any texts from that time about the proposed excommunication of Ramchal?
Answer
Included were Rabbis Yaakov Emden and Moshe Chagiz according to Graetz here and R. Yitzchak Pacifici (פאציפיקו) (the chief rabbi of Venice) as Graetz notes here. This page lists generally the Ashkenazi and Spanish rabbis of Germany, Venice, Poland, Holland, and Denmark as pronouncing the ban.
It should be noted that the ban was actually promulgated; not just planned.
The text of the ban of the rabbis of Venice in 1735 is cited here as being found in:
אגרת קלו, עמ' שכה-שכח; מהד' שריקי, עמ' שסב-שסה
According to this Hebrew wikipedia page R. Moshe Chagiz was the main instigator of the ban, and he wrote many letters throughout the dispute against the Ramchal.
According to this Hebrew Wikipedia page, R. Emden wrote against the Ramchal as well.
According to this site, R. Yechezkel Katzenelbogen av beis din of Altona wrote to the rabbis of Venice against the Ramchal as well.
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