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Lot #    11313
Auction End Date    8/16/2005 12:25:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ve-Yizbor Yosef
Title (Hebrew)    ויצבר יוסף
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Joseph ben Zevi Rottenberg
City    Mukachevo
Publisher    Kahan Et Fried
Publication Date    1915
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [4], 48 ff., 200:170 mm., nice margins, usual age staining, old hands. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novellae on the weekly Torah readings from Sefer Bereishit and assorted hiddushim from R. Joseph ben Zevi Rottenberg. The title page has an architectural frame with biblical verses at the top. It informs that R. Rottenberg, author of Bnei Sheloshim, served as av bet din in Kasan. The title is from “And Joseph gathered (ve-yizbor Yosef) [grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left counting; for it was without number]” (Genesis 41:49). On the verso of the title page is a list of the name of the individuals who supported publication and below it is the disclaimer against confusing remarks about the nations in earlier times with contemporary gentiles. An introduction from the author’s son follows, and approbations from R. Jekuthiel Judah Teitelbaum (of Sighet, d. 1944) and R. Hayyim Halberstam. The test follows, the discourses, in two columns in rabbinic type, excepting headers and initial words, which are in square letters. Ve-Yizbor Yosef civ ers the weekly sedrah from parashat Bereishit through VaYahi (9c). The remaindere of the book is on Psalms, Kriat Shema, tefilla, saying of the sages, and other matters.

R. Joseph ben Zevi Rottenberg was born in Gallick, Galicia in 1853. He died on 23 Heshvan 5672 (November 14, 1912). He was the admor of Tush, Debrezin, and other communities.

          
Paragraph 2    חדושים (על הסדרות ... מבראשית עד ויחי ... לקוטי תהלים ... שערים ... ק"ש ... התפלה ... מאמרי חכמינו ... שער הכולל) ... מאאמ"ו ... מו"ה יהוסף ... זללה"ה ... האב"ד דק"ק קאסאן שם מ"כ [מנוחתו כבוד] (המעתיק והמסדר בן ... המחבר הצעיר חיים שלמה ר"ב [ראטענבערג] האבדק"ק קאסאן) ... ,p> דף [4-2]:פתחי שערים, הקדמה מאת בן המחבר, ובסופה מכתבי-המלצה שנתנו למחבר ומכתב אל ר' יהודה צבי [ב"ר משה אייכענשטיין] מאת חותנו ר' צבי [אייכענשטיין]. בהקדמה: "רוב ספר הזה העתקתי מספר הלקוטים ומעט ... מספר ויפתח [יוסף] ומספר ויזכר [יוסף] ... כי הרבה דברים ... נשמטו בהדפסה ראשונה [בתוך ספר בני שלשים. עיין למעלה] ... ואנכי המסדר חלקתים לשערים ... והוספתי ... על דבריו ... כי הוצרכתי לפרש דברין".
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0167261
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Other:    Hungary
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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