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Lot #    15953
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 11:15:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Mei Gabe
Title (Hebrew)    מי גבא
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Gedaliah Heilpern
City    New York
Publisher    Zenser
Publication Date    1914
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 79, [1] pp., 220:145 mm., wide margins, usual age staining, stamps. A very good copy loose in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Homilies and sermons by R. Gedaliah b. Jehiel Heilpern (d. 1926), born in Kozlovshchina, Grodno Province. His father, who served as a rabbi for fifty years, was his only teacher (p. 3). He was ordained by R. Joseph Rosen and R. Joseph Shlupfer, both of Slonim, at the age of eighteen. Though he preached in Slonim, R. Heilperin was unwilling to earn a living as a rabbi and became a merchant. He immigrated to America ca. 1899. He initially avoided the rabbinate there as well, but his financial situation forced him to accept a pulpit in Toledo, OH (p. 29). He also served as a rabbi in Forth Worth (TX), Portland (OR) (p. 1) and Seattle. He visited Lodz, Poland, in 1917 (p. 46) and died in Mt. Vernon, NY, in 5686 [1926]. Heilperin was a descendant of R. Yehiel Heilperin and his aunt's husband was the Hafez Hayyim.

The work also contains responsa on a controversial mikvah in Seattle by R. Heilperin, R. Zachariah Joseph Rosenfeld, and R. Hayyim Jacob Widrewitz, (pp. 50-4). Glosses by R. Aaron Gordon appear on pp. 54, 71, 77. Halpern bemoaned the dejected spiritual state of American Jewry (p. 3).

          
Paragraph 2    מדבר בו בשאלות... העומדות ברומו של עולם היהדות והאנושיות. חבר על ידי... גדליה בהרב... ר' יחיאל זצ"ל היילפערין מגזע בעל סדר הדורות אשר זכני ד' לכהן... בכתר הרבנות... בטאלידא אהיה פארט ווארט טעקסעס ובפארטלאנד ארעגאן וכעת בסיאטעל וואשינגטאן...

הסכמה: ר' יצחק זאב ווענדראווסקי, ד לסלחה [כה אלול] תרע"ד.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0137798; Goldman 759
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica