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Lot #    10202
Auction End Date    4/19/2005 12:56:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tokeph ha-Talmud
Title (Hebrew)    תוקף התלמוד
Author    [Polemic - Only Ed.] R. Isaac Zevi Margaretten
City    Ofen
Publisher    Konigl. ungarischen Universitats Buchdruckerei
Publication Date    1849
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 10 pp., 54 ff., 198:121 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in modern half leather boards, corners tipped in.
          
Detailed
Description		    Against Teshuvot be-Anshei Aven, an anti-Reform polemic, by R. Phinehas M. Heilpern. This polemic is divided into three sections. The first deals with the issue of textual emendations in the Talmud which the author believes should be limited to those emendations already suggested by the medieval Talmudists. The second part suggests that one should accept the conclusions of the Talmud even if these are counter intuitive. The third and most polemical section of this book is an attack based on the first two sections against Pinchas Menachem Heilprin (1801-1863) who had suggested in his book Teshuvot be-Anshei Aven that civil marriages might be permissible under Jewish law even though this conflicted with the Talmudic dictum:דכל דמקדש אדעתא דרבנן מקדש ואפקעינהו רבנן לקדושין מיניה. Heilprin had suggested that not all Talmudic ideas were meant to endure beyond Talmudic times and that if they seemed not to make sense it was perfectly legitimate to emend the text accordingly. Heilprin was hardly a reformer and the EJ suggests that: ‘the moderation of his critical views on talmudic literature stemmed from a loyalty to Jewish tradition’.

R. Isaac Zevi b. David Margaretten (1808-1850) was born in Orshah Abraham, Transylvania and educated in major Hungarian Yeshivot. He was rabbi in Felsoabrany, Hungary and wrote several scholarly works of which only Bet David (Bratislava 1846) was printed.

          
Paragraph 2    נחלק לשלשה מאמרים (במאמר א מבואר... שאין להסתפק הנוסחא שבתלמוד במקום שלא הביאו שם הראשונים ז"ל חלופי גירסאות, במאמר ב מבואר... שמחויבים אנחנו מצד חקי החכמה לבטל דעתנו במקום שדברי התלמוד מתנגדים לה. במאמר ג מבואר... שהנוסחא דכל דמקדש אדעתא דרבנן מקדש ואפקעינהו רבנן לקדושין מיניה היא הנוסחא אמתי, להסיר מחשבת זדון מחכם אחד [פנחס מנחם היילפרין] שכתב על ספרו תשובות באנשי און [פראנקפורט אם מיין תר"ה]... ספחתי... דרושים... ובתוכם מספד ... על... מו"ה יהושיע כ"ץ זצוק"ל, ראב"ד דק"ק ווערפעליט, וכמעט חצי שנה קודם הלקח ארון האלוקים, נתקבל לראב"ד דק"ק יארמוט ושם כבודו מונח) חברתי אני יצחק צבי מארגירעטען, אב"ד דק"ק אברעהאם...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0145913; Margaretten-Horowitz Directory and genealogy of the Horowitz-Margareten family, Brooklyn N.Y. 1955, p. 184
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica