In fact, he wrote Horeb first, but his publishers doubted that a work defending traditional Judaism would find a market in those times, when reform was in vogue.
V skutočnosti napísal Horeb ako prvý, ale jeho vydavatelia pochybovali, že by sa v čase, keď do módy prichádzala reforma, mohlo na vtedajšom trhu uplatniť dielo obhajujúce tradičný judaizmus.