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Lot #
14558
Auction End Date
6/13/2006 10:55:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Shemira Tova
Title (Hebrew)
שמירה טובה
Author
[Only Ed. - Polemic] R. Hayyim Meir Boll
City
New York
Publication Date
1925
Collection Information
Independent Item
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Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. 128 pp., octavo, 190:140 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy loose in contemporary boards. No copy in major libraries.
Detailed
Description
All the usages of the term shemira (guarding, safekeeping) in the Torah by R. Hayyim Meir ben Mordecai Boll (Bolotowsky; d. 1937). Shemira Tova encompasses, according to the title page, explanations of the prohibitions on shaving one’s beard by all means of shaving including salves and specifically razors, the poor situation concerning ritual slaughter in New York and the United States in general, according to what the author has personally observed during a period of eighteen years in the country. He has added references from the all Talmud to for halakhah le-Moshe me-Sinai mentioned in the Talmud and Rashi, or in Tosafot. He states that he has written this according to the halakhah mussar, and according to the holy Zohar. There is an index of the contents, a lengthy introduction form the author, a list of the places where shemira appears in the Torah, and the text in a single column in square letters. Part two of the book is, as noted on the title page, halakhah le-Moshe me-Sinai, organized by tractate. It concludes with a discourse on gemilut Hasidim.
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כולל כל לשון שמירה הנזכר בתורה למקומותיהם ותעודותיהם, ומבואר איסור גלוח הזקן בכל מיני גלוח ואפילו בסם, ומתאר בפרוטרוט רוע מצב השחיטה בניו-יורק ובארצות הברית בכלל, עפ"י מה שראו עיני המחבר ... במשך ח"י שנה היותו שו"ב במדינה זו. ונוספו בו מראה-מקומות מכל הש"ס להלכה למשה מסיני, הן שנזכרו בסוגיות הגמרא והן ברש"י או בתוספות ... כל אלה חוברו לה יחדיו עפ"י הלכה, דרוש ומוסר ועפ"י הזוהר הקדוש, מאתי חיים מאיר בן מרדכי ז"ל באלל, שו"ב ...
Reference
Description
BE shin 1770 (erronously dates as 1928); CD-EPI 0121773; Hebrew Printing in America 1185
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Period
20th Century:
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Location
America-South America:
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Subject
Halacha:
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Kabbalah:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica