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Bidding Information
Lot #    10013
Auction End Date    3/22/2005 4:21:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shavat ha-Ari
Title (Hebrew)    ùåòú äàøé
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Aryeh Judah Loeb Lifshitz
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Zion
Publication Date    1926
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 76 pp. 165:120 mm., usual age staining, minor scattered worming, not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Ethical work by R. R. Aryeh Judah Loeb Lifshitz. The title page has an ornamental border and states that it was written by tge gaon, the kabbalist, the righteous R. Lifshit who was the av bet din in several communities in Poland and author of the work Yismah Zaddik. At the bottom of the title page is an English paragraph which describes the book as “Shawas Hoari, contains explanations on religion, morality, etc. by the gross (sic) Rabbi Leib Lifshitz, who was chief Rabbi in many places in Poland, author fo many books.” On the verso of the title page is a depiction of the Western Wall followed by a prohibition on unauthorized reprints. There are several approbations, including a lengthy one from R. Abraham Isaac Kook followed by an approbation from R. Joseph Hayyim Sonnenfeld. There is an introduction form R. Lifshits in Hebrew and then the text, which is divided into eighteen chapters and is in Yiddish. The volume concludes with errata.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Ethics
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Yiddish, Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica