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Lot #    13709
Auction End Date    3/7/2006 12:18:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tabur ha-Erez
Title (Hebrew)    טבור הארץ
Author    [Only Ed. - Signed Copy] R. Moses ben Meir Kliers
City    Jerusalem
Publication Date    1906
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 4, 109 (should say 110) ff., octavo, 188:118 mm., nice margins, light age staining, old hands. A very good copy loose in contemporary boards, split.
          
Paragraph 1    Authographed by author on title verso.
          
Detailed
Description		    On the history, importance, and sacredness of Tiberius by R. Moses ben Meir Kliers. The title page describes it as being about the holy city of Tiberius, which is situated in the center of Erez Israel (Megillah 6a), and in it is explained its praise, virtues, qualities, and greatness, its synagogues, from earlier times, its surroundings, sages and rabbis, its hot springs, the Sea of Kinneret, the well of Mariam, and the graves of the righteous. The verso of the title page has a dedicatory page from the author, to be completed by the purchaser, with R. Kliers’ address, in Tiberias (sic) (per Beyrouth Syrie) in Palestine. Tehre are approbations from R. Jacob David Ridbaz and R. Jehiel Michael Heilperin, an introduction from R. Kliers, and a detailed table of contents describing the books ten chapters. A brief summary of the contents includes the first chapter explains the reasons for Tiberius being such a praiseworthy city, noting, among other virtues, that it was the last residence of the Sanhedrin in Israel, and Rashi’s questions on this. And that from Tiberius the redemption will begin. The second chapter discusses the fact that Tiberius was the residence of the tribe of Naphtali, and that a get written in lower Galil is invalid. Chapter four describes the early sages in Tiberius, five is a historical accounting of events from the time of the Raman rulers, six the settlement of Ashkenazim in Tiberius, seven on the Kinneret, and ten on the merit of the fathers. Included in Tabur ha-Erez is a complete transcription of R. Jacob Berab’s Zemirot ha-Erez, and much more.
          
Paragraph 2    כולו ידבר מעיה"ק טבריא... שבחי' ומעלותי'... ובתי כנסיותי'... חכמי' ורבני' וקורותי'... חמי טבריא, ים כנרת, חומתה, בארה של מרים, קברות הקדושי'... חובר מאת... ר' משה קליערס הי"ו. נדפס בהוצאות... ישיבת אור תורה בעיה"ק טבריא...

עמ' ה-יא: מאמר לכבוד התורה... הישיבה... אור תורה... פעי"ק טבריא. דף ס-עא: אעתיק פה את כל הספר "זמרת הארץ"... אשר (כתב)... הרב יעקב בירב ז"ל [מנטובה תק"ה]. דף עו,ב-פא,א: "הזמן שנתיישבו אחינו האשכנזים בטבריא... והעתק איזה מכתבים מהם לחו"ל". נדפסו: אגרת ר' ישראל ב"ר פרץ פאליצקער משנת תקל"ח; אגרות ר' מנחם מענדל ב"ר משה מוויטעבסק משנות תקמ"א, תקמ"ה; אגרות ר' אברהם ב"ר אלכסנדר כ"ץ קאליסקער משנות תקמ"ח, תקס"ו. הסכמות: ר' יעקב דוד רידב"ז, צפת, ד תשרי תרס"ו; ר' יחיאל מיכל היילפרין, טבריא.

          
Reference
Description		    BE tet 1; CD-EPI 0164509
        
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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