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Lot #    15414
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 10:35:21 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Cos Tanhumim
Title (Hebrew)    כוס תנחומים
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Mordecai Hayyim Seligsberg
City    Frankfort am Main
Publisher    (H. L. Broenner)
Publication Date    1867
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. viii, 272 pp., octavo, 210:115 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    One hundred thirty two discourses to be said in the home of a mourner by R. Mordecai Hayyim Seligsberg. There is an introduction from R. Seligsberg, concluding with two pages of verse, the second a dedication to R. Hirsch Oyev of Munich. Next is a table of contents listing the 132 discourses, which include such subjects as the blessing sheyanu, ten trials faced by the Patriarch Abraham, also this is for good, the individual and mazel, war and peace, the day is short and the work is considerable, the difficulty of raising children, new light, redemption, strife and joy, kikayon, Ninveh, Abraham and Satan, the dream of Jacob, the plague in the days of King David, the passing of generations, Satan does not accuse except in times of danger, The L-rd speaks good to you, and seven discourses on the subject affliction is the source of true happiness. The last discourse is on peace, followed by an epilogue from the author. Cos Tanhumim is bound with its original pink wrappers, the back cover of which is in German.
          
Paragraph 2    לבטוח בחי עולמים, לאמץ יגיעי-כח ודלים, לנחם חולים ואבלים ויתן תקוה טובה לאחרית הימים ... מאת מרדכי חיים זעליגזבערג ראבבינער ...

Cover title: Kelch des Trostes; Belehrung und Beruhigung fuer Leidende und Trauerende ... Von M. H. Seligsberg, Rabbiner in Fellheim ...

          
Reference
Description		    BE caf 140; CD-EPI 0132555
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica