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Lot #    18329
Auction End Date    7/10/2007 10:02:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Document signed by the Darkei ha-Emunah
Title (Hebrew)    מכתב מבמ'ס דרכי האמונה
Author    [Ms. - Hasidim] R. Joseph David ha-Kohen of Jassy
City    Jassy
Publication Date    1820
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 256:187 mm., light age staining, ing on paper neat Ashkenazic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Bet Din decree affirming the disposition of an estate signed by R. Joseph David ha-Kohen of Jassy (c.1750-1828), rabbi of Jassy. He was born in Galicia and studied with R. Mehullem Feivish Heller of Zabrze. He served as rabbi of Tysmenitsa, followed by Zavalov, and finally Jassy. A pious and erudite scholar he wrote Darkei ha-Emunah (Jassy 1857), kabbalistic and hasidic work on the Pentateuch which carries approbations of many important rabbis. The work, Darkei ha-Emunah, is one of the books many Hasidim keep in their homes to guard against evil. This document carries the author's signature!
          
Reference
Description		    Wedner, Galicia, v.3, pp. 302-303
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica