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Lot #    17910
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:26:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Explication of an engraving called the origin
Title (Hebrew)    of the rites and worship of the Hebrews
Author    [Kabbalah] D. Rosenberg, Max Wolff.
City    New York
Publisher    Office of the Jewish Messenger
Publication Date    1859
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    12mo. 106 pages. Title page in Hebrew on facing page. "From the original French of D. Rosenberg, of Paris. With additional remarks and investigations, notes and diagrams, by Max Wolff. " Illustrated with diagrams. List of subscribers. Poem (in Hebrew) dedicated to the subscribers following the Preface. Table of contents at end. Lacks outer binding. First signature loose. Lacks illustration of the engraving, otherwise complete. Some chipping to outer pages. Ex-library with minimal markings. Text in good condition.
          
Paragraph 1    Title: Explication of an engraving called the origin of the rites and worship of the Hebrews: together with remarks on creation, and a brief account of some observances and their symbolical signification / from the original French of D. Rosenberg, of Paris ; with additional remarks and investigations, notes and diagrams by Max Wolff.
          
Detailed
Description		    Rosenberg states in his preface, "Our research is directed toward that root of manifold religious systems, Judaism. This tree, so vast yet weak and treated with disdain, has seen boughs, spreading from its stem, transform themselves under various denominations, and, from having been Israelite, become Christian and Mahometan. It is the origin of this parent of religions that we deem it needful to investigate...By treating of the moving causes that led to the Law of Moses, and by means of an ENGRAVING, representing THE ORIGIN OF THE RITES AND WORSHIP OF THE HEBREWS, we trust to accomplish the work we have undertaken. " Wolff states in his editor's preface that, while he does not agree with every point the author makes, Rosenberg "unfolds to us a view of the connection between the laws of nature and the laws of Israel, which, hitherto, has been accessible only to the student of Kabbalah, " and which he finds useful of dissemination. Max Wolff was Minister of the Congregation Chabei Shalom in Boston, Massachusetts. Rare.
          
Reference
Description		    Singerman 1599. Dienard 70. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide of this edition.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
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Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica