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Two independent works printed in Belozerka in 1806, Korban Shabbat and Taharat ha-Kodesh.
Korban Shabbat, by R. Bezalel ben Solomon of Kobryn, is on halakhah and customs pertaining to Shabbat. The title page is dated with the phrase, “this is the the korban (offering) of Shabbat.” There is an approbation from R. Bezalel Katz. The text, set in two columns in rabbinic type, is divided into thirty-nine chapters. R. Bezalel ben Solomon was a preacher at Slutzk, government of Minsk, Russia; later at Boskowitz, Moravia. He died prior to 1659. In addition to Korban Shabbat, R. Bezalel was the author of Amudeah Shivah, homilies on the Bible, divided into seven parts, each of which bears the title of a Biblical expression connected with the name of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, David, or Solomon (Lublin, 1666). This work was published by the order of the Council of the Four Lands and of the Lithuanian Rabbinical Assembly, held at Lublin in 1666. Pelah ha Rimmon, containing twenty explanations of the forty-nine which had been written by Bezalel on a difficult Midrashic passage (Amsterdam, 1659); Havazelet ha-Sharon, commentary on Psalm 119, mentioned in the introduction to the preceding work; Zayit Ra’anan, homilies on the Torah, and Emek ha-Baka, commentary on Lamentations. The last two works are still extant in manuscript.
The second works is Taharat ha-Kodesh by R. Benjamin Wolff ben Matthias. There are approbations from R. Aryeh Judah Leib ben Shalom Segal. Taharat ha-Kodesh is also set in two columns in rabbinic type. The text is in two parts; a decorative floral woodcut is used as a filler after the approbation and between parts one and two. Taharat ha-Kodesh is a kabbalistic work on proper conduct.
Belozerka (Bialozorka) imprints are very rare. Only three works are known to have been printed there, all at the press of Mordecai ben Samuel. |
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Hida, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 19, ii. 118; EJ; Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 191; JE; Michael, Or ha-Hayyim, No. 613; Vin Bialozorka 1, 2
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