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Lot #    16277
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 1:55:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Erez Zevi and Te'omei Zeviyyah
Title (Hebrew)    ארץ צבי ותאומי צביה
Author    [First Ed.] R. Zevi Hirsch ben David Teomim
City    Vienna
Publisher    Anton Strauss
Publication Date    1822
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   First edition. [2], 117 ff., 335:205 mm., wide margins, light age staining, old hands, stamps. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   Important novellae on Shulhan Arukh Even ha-Ezer by R. Zevi Hirsch ben David Teomim. The title page describes it as two desirable commentaries written by R. Zevi Hirsch ben David of Broda when he resided in Kittsee, Hungary. The verso of the title pages has approbations from R. Mordecai Benet, R. Moses Mintz of Brod, and R. Moses Sofer (Hatam Sofer) of Pressburg. Next is R. Zevi Hirsch’s introduction and the caution against confusing contemporary gentiles with those from an earlier period when terms such as akum or nocri are used. The text follows, with the Shulhan Arukh Even ha-Ezer in the center, Te'omei Zeviyyah in the right hand column, and Erez Zevi in the left hand column, the latter two in rabbinic letters. Te'omei Zeviyyah is a commentary and explanation, Te'omei Zeviyyah are novellae and pilpul.

R. Zevi Hirsch ben David Teomim Brod (d. 1820) was a talmudic sage and scholar. His father resided in Hungary – Brod from which the family takes its name. After marrying R. Zevi Hirsch continued to learn while living in the home of his father-in-law, the philanthropist R. Jacob Bak until he was offered the position of rabbi in Szenice. In 1780, he was selected to be rabbi of Kittsee (Kopcseny), Hungary, where he served for about forty years and also headed a yeshivah. When a Hebrew press was founded in Vienna R. Zevi Hirsch hoped to print his works but lacked the means to do so; they were only published posthumously. Erez Zevi and Te’omei Zeviyyah (pt. 1, Vienna, 1823; pt. 2, Presburg, 1846) the first of his works to be published, was ready for publication by 1814. He also wrote Shenei Ofarim (Prague, 1825), sermons, published by his son Aaron.

          
Paragraph 2    שני באורים... על שלחן ערוך אבן העזר [סי' א-סה] אשר חברתי וחקרתי אני...צבי הירש במוהר"ר דוד זצ"ל מברודא וכעת אני שוכן בתוך ישרים ועדה דק"ק קיצע במדינת אונגארן...

הסכמות: ר' מרדכי בנעט, נ"ש [ניקלשבורג], יג אלול תקפ"ב; ר' משה מינץ מבראד, אובן ישן, כא אלול תקפ"ב; ר' משה סופר, פרעשבורג, כז תמוז תקפ"ב.

          
Reference
Description
   Cohen, Sages of Hungary, p. 253; EJ; Vin Vienna 567; CD-EPI 0162026
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica