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- Lot Number 54549
- Title (English) Derekh Avot
- Title (Hebrew) דרך אבות
- Note Avot
- Author R. Elijah b. Benjamin Schick
- City Philadelphia
- Publisher Aaron Levin
- Publication Date 1895
- Estimated Price - Low 500
- Estimated Price - High 1,000
- Item # 2637231
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Description
Physical Description
[7], 5-90[2; 4] pp., quarto, 204:155 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in later boards, rubbed.
Includes oft lacking final 4 pp. - a listing of sponsors in the USA. The list is a who's who of the American rabbinate.
Detail Description
Commentary to Avot by R. Elijah b. Benjamin Schick, Lithuanian rabbi and preacher; born at Vasilishok, government of Vilna, in 1809; died at Kobrin, government of Kovno, Sept. 2, 1876. He was a pupil of R. Benjamin, chief rabbi of Grodno. As rabbi he officiated in various towns, including Diretchin, Lida, Novie Zhagory, and Kobrin; and on the holy days of Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur he acted as cantor. He was one of the preachers whose sermons always attracted large audiences. R. Schick was the author of "'En Eliyahu," a commentary on R. Jacob Habib's "'En Ya'aḳov," published with the Vilna edition of that work..
The publisher, R. Hanokh Henokh Schick, was the author's grandson. He emigrated from Russia and lived in Philadelphia for two months in 1891 where he apparently served as Rabbi.
Hebrew Description
ביאור ... על מסכת אבות [עם הפנים], מאת ... ר' אליהו ... שי"ק ... הובא לביה"ד ע"י בנו ותלמידו (פינחס ... שי"ק).
שני שערים. מעבר לשער השני: הקדמת בן המחבר. נדפס דף על דף על-פי ווילנא תרמ"ב, בשינויים מעטים מטעם הצנזורה, בתוספת שני העמודים האחרונים: חידושי תורה, מהרב ... ר' שלמה שליט"א כ"ץ מ"ץ דק"ק ווילנא.