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Lot #    17967
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:54:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefat Emet v. III
Title (Hebrew)    שפת אמת ח'ג
Author    [Hasidic - First Ed.] R. Judah Arye Loeb Alter
City    Piotrkow
Publisher    Blechatowski
Publication Date    1906
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Volume 3 (of 5), 213, [1] pp., 260:190 mm., wide margins, usual age staining, old hands and stamps. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, spine taped.
          
Detailed
Description		    Hasidic commentary on the Pentateuch by the Admor of Gur. R. Judah Arye Loeb Alter (1847–1905) son of R. Abraham Mordecai (the eldest son of R. Isaac Meir), was orphaned as a child and brought up and educated largely by his grandfather. In 1870, after the death of R. Hanokh of Aleksandrow, the successor of R. Isaac Meir as Gur rabbi, R. Judah Aryeh Leib became the head (admor) of Gur. In this position he wielded a wide influence and established the leadership of Gur Hasidism in Congress Poland. A distinguished scholar, modest in behavior, R. Judah Aryeh Leib won the confidence of rabbis and communal leaders throughout Jewry. Like his grandfather he also played a role in public affairs, concerning himself with contemporary Polish Jewish problems. Through his influence Hasidism in Poland dissociated itself from Zionism. R. Judah Aryeh Leib devoted much energy promoting Torah study and attracted many of the youth. His writings are collected under the title Sefat Emet (2 vols., 1905–08), after which he is also known. The five sections on the Pentateuch include addresses on Sabbaths and festivals, distinguished by the profundity of their ideas and clarity of exposition, and reflect the marked influence of R. Judah Loew b. Bezalel (the Maharal) of Prague. The sections on the Talmud, on tractates Mo'ed and Kiddushin, evidence his wide Jewish scholarship and ability to penetrate to the intended meaning and provide a lucid exposition of the problem, in contrast to the dialectical pilpul method followed by his grandfather.
          
Paragraph 2    ... מאת ... מרן יהודא ארי' ליב זצוקלה"ה מגור יע"א (במוהר"ר אברהם מרדכי) אשר השאיר אחריו ברכה ... וזה יצא ראשונה (מאמרי קודש אשר אמר), חידושי תורה על כל שבתות השנה והמועדים. חלק א-ה.

חלק ג: ויקרא. פיעטרקוב, דפוס שלמה בעלכאטאווסקי, תרס"ו, 213 .1906, [1] עמ'. בשער: II (אותיות קיריליות) [!].

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0176773; EJ; A. I. Alter, Me'ir Einei ha-Golah (1954); M. Schwartzman, Ha-Ma'or ha-Gadol (1966); I. Frenkel, Men of Distinction, 1 (1967), 127–34; 2 (1967), 95–102; M. A. Lipschitz, Hassidic School of Gur (Diss., Univ. of Wisconsin, 1964).
        
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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