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Lot #    17985
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 1:03:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Devar Elijah
Title (Hebrew)    דבר אליהו
Author    R. Elijah (Gaon of Vilna)
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Zevi Jacob Bomberg
Publication Date    1857
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    21, [3] ff., 160:95 mm., nice margins, blue paper, tear in f, 17 touching letters. A good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary to the book of Job. R. Elijah ben Solomon Zalman of Vilna (1720-97) is a dominant figure in Jewish intellectual thought, his importance and prestige undiminished, as great today, if not greater, than in his own time. The Vilna Gaon’s extraordinary intelligence, expressed by his expertise in Torah at the age of three, outdistancing his tutors while a young child, his incredible proficiency over the entire expanse of the written and Oral Torah by nine, by which time he was already studying Kabbalah, accompanied by complete piety, are attested to by numerous reputable sources. More than seventy works, encompassing Bible, halakhah, Talmud, Kabbalah, and general sciences are attributed to him. The latter, among them Ayil Meshullash, includes highly erudite treatises on geometry, astronomy, and medicine.
          
Paragraph 2    מאת ... רבינו אליהו מווילנא נ"ע אשר למד עם בנו ... מו"ה אברהם ז"ל והוא כתב על הספר ... ועתה קם והתעורר ... מו"ה אברהם דוב בעריש פלאהם נ"י מ"מ דק"ק שעברשין להביא לבית הדפוס (עם הערות) ...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0110359
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica