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Bidding Information
Lot #    11803
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 12:05:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shever Poshim
Title (Hebrew)    שבר פושעים
Author    [Polemic - Hasidim]
City    Lemberg
Publisher    J. R. N.
Publication Date    1869
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [4], 32 pp., 194:118 mm. light age staining. A very good copy not bound. Rare - most copies of the books in this battle were destroyed by the opponents.
          
Detailed
Description		    Polemic concerning the dispute between the Hasidim of Zanz and Sadagora, which aroused a controversy that spread beyond Galicia and also involved the leading non-hasidic rabbis. The principal cause of the dispute lay in the basic difference between the Zanz pattern of Hasidism with its stress on traditional learning and ecstatic expression in religious life and the manner of life adopted by R. Israel of Ruzhin and followed by his descendants. They lived in almost literally royal style, in the utmost luxury and splendor, which aroused resentment and opposition particularly of the Hasidim of Zanz, and also of the conservative Hasidim of Galicia generally. The publication of Dov Baer of Lyova, the youngest son of R. Israel of Ruzhin, in which he renounced Hasidism and expressed his support of the Haskalah, gave the Hasidim of Zanz a weapon against the dynasty of Ruzhin. R. Hayyim Halberstam, Admor of Zanz, issued a letter in which he openly expressed his strong reservations about the way of life of the Sadagora Hasidim. It was circulated throughout Galicia, and a stormy debate between the two hasidic groups ensued. A rabbinical convention in the Ukraine called for the excommunication of R. Hayyim and even demanded that he should be handed over to the authorities. The dispute reached Erez Israel, where it took on an added dimension in affecting the financial arrangements of the halukkah, and apportionment of the money from Poland, to support the community in Erez Israel. A number of rabbis, including R. Joseph Saul Nathanson of Lvov and R. Dov Berush Meisels, rabbi of Warsaw, R. Hayyim's brother-in-law, attempted to reconcile the opposing parties. The Hungarian rabbis intervened without success. After several months the dispute died down, but R. Hayyim remained consistent in his opinions on the matter.
          
Paragraph 2    ... והוא תשובת חכם לב ("משה הלוי") ... ממדינת גאליציען (היושב בעיר יאסי הקרובה אל החילול) אשר השיב לרעהו תושב רוסיא אשר שאלו ע"ד המהומה ... ממעשי דוב בער [ב"ר ישראל פרידמאן] מלווי ... ולשון שקר אשר שלחו ... הנספחים אל ... אחיו (על ... מ' חיים ה"ש [האלברשטאם] ... האבד"ק סאנץ שליט"א) ... לבל ינהו ב"י [בני ישראל] ... אחרי דברי הבלם ..

אודות המחלוקת בין ר' חיים מצאנז והאדמורי"ם בני ר' ישראל מרוזין, על רקע מעשיו של אחיהם ר' דוב בר פרידמאן מליאובה. המחבר של פרסום זה הוא המחבר של החוברת "כנסת הגדולה ודברי חכמים" (באותו נושא), [לעמבערג] תרכ"ט. ג' באדר (מדינה וחכמיה, נו יורק תרצ"ד, עמ' 61) מיחס אותן לנפתלי הירץ גולדשטרן.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0116063
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica