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Bidding Information
Lot #    14654
Auction End Date    6/13/2006 11:43:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tanya (Likkutei Amarim)
Title (Hebrew)    תניא (ליקוטי אמרים)
Author    [Habad] R. Shneur Zalman of Liady
City    Zholkva
Publisher    Abraham Judah Leib Meir-Hoffer
Publication Date    1805
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Third edition. [2], 73, [1] ff., 174:104 mm., nice margins, several ff. backed in margins, stamps. A very good copy bound in later half leathr boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    The main Habad work of Kabbalah and Hasidut wherein the "Alter Rebbe" develops a systematic theosophical doctrine on the conceptions of G-d and the world and of man and his religious obligations, based on the Kabbalah of R. Isaac Luria in its original form combined with the Hasidism of the Ba'al Shem Tov and especially that of the maggid of Mezhirich. R. Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745–1813), the founder of Habad Hasidism. He was according to family traditions born in Liozna, Belorussia, on the 18th of Elul. After his marriage in 1760 he devoted himself to Torah study. Concluding that he knew "a little about learning, but nothing about prayer" in 1764 he decided to learn about Hasidism from R. Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezhirech, leader of the Hasidic movement. In Mezhirech he became one of the inner circle of the Maggid's pupils. Although he was one of the youngest pupils, the Maggid had a high opinion of him, and in 1770 delegated to him the task of composing a new and up-to-date Shulhan Arukh. R. Shneur Zalman worked on this book for many years, but published only small parts of it. About one-third was printed posthumously (the rest had been destroyed by fire) and is known as the "Shulhan Arukh of the Rav" (1814). Though not a chasidic work, it represents - as the Maggid had intended - a great halakhic achievement. It evidences R. Shneur Zalman's superb Hebrew style, his ability to provide lucid explanation, and profundity without complexity. It became an authoritative halakhic source among observant Jews.
          
Paragraph 2    בראשי העמודים: ליקוטי אמרים. נדפס דף על דף, על-פי זאלקווי תקנ"ט, עם נוסח השער, כולל שם המביא לבית הדפוס, ובהבלטת תיבת "בסלאוויטא". דברי "המסדר האותיות" נשמטו.
          
Reference
Description		    Mundschein, Torat Habad p. 44, # 3; Habermann, Habad 50; CD-EPI 0170969 (based on this copy); EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica