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Lot #    10342
Auction End Date    4/19/2005 3:16:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Taharat ha-Kodesh: Korban Shabbat
Title (Hebrew)    טהרות הקודש קרבן שבת
Author    [Kabbalah] R. Benjamin Wolff; R. Bezalel of Kobryn
City    Belozerka
Publisher    Mordecai ben Samuel
Publication Date    1806
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [4], 66, 58; [1], 51 ff., 204:140 mm., nice margins, usual light age and damp staining, blue paper. Very good copies bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   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.

          
Paragraph 2    עם הסכמת ר' ארי' יהודא ליב ב"ר שלום סג"ל, מזבאריז ומק"ק וואליטשק, "הולך ונוסע לאה"ק". ניתנה למדפיס עם הקמת בית-הדפוס בבליזורקע.
          
Reference
Description
   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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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica