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Lot #    18590
Auction End Date    8/21/2007 10:31:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Dereh Hayyim
Title (Hebrew)    דרך חיים ותוכחת מוסר השכל
Author    [First Ed. - Habad] R. Dov Ber Schneerson
City    Kopys (Kopyst)
Publisher    Israel b. Isaac Jaffa
Publication Date    1819
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 80, 85-88, 93-178 ff., 173:104 mm., blue paper, usual light age and damp staining, old hands, initial and final with stamp erasures. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Hasidic discourse on liturgy by the son of the founder of the Habad Hasidim. R. Dov Ber Schneerson (1773–1827), the eldest son of R. Shneur Zalman. He became after his father's death in 1813 the leader of the majority of his father's Hasidim. He settled in the little town of Lubavich, which became the center of Habad. Under R. Dov Ber's leadership, the Habad approach was strengthened and deepened. His blend of intellect and mysticism is expressed in his clear and profound commentaries on his father's works. He was a prolific writer and wrote many works, the majority being explanations of diverse subjects, among them Kunteres ha-Hitpa'alut (1876; Tractate on Ecstasy, 1963), according to his systematized Habad Hasidism. At the same time he supported the idea of productivization in Jewish economy, and encouraged his Hasidim to take up manual occupations. He also persuaded all the Habad Hasidim in Erez Israel to settle in Hebron (1820) which became the Habad center there. R. Dov Baer was imprisoned for a time because of accusations against him by an informer, but was released on the 10th of Kislev, which is celebrated as a holiday among Habad Hasidim. He passed on in Nezhin in Ukraine.
          
Paragraph 2    ... אשר הועתק מגוף כי"ק [כתב יד קדשו] של כבוד אדמו"ר... ר' דוב בער שיחי' (ב"ר שניאור זלמן זצ"ל). והוא חלק שלישי משער התשובה [ספרו שער התשובה והתפלה] ... בשנת א'זן שומ'ע'ת ת'וכח'ת חיים'

גם שני היודין שבתיבות "חיים" שבפרט צריכים להיות מובלטים. עיין: א. מ. הברמן, שערי חב"ד, עלי עי"ן, ירושלים תש"ח-תשי"ב, עמ' 300, מס' 27. שם גם על טעותם של צדנר ובן-יעקב. ואכן בהוצאה הבאה העתיק מדפיס זה את הפרט של הוצאה זו והבליט את היודין. אף חלק זה מחולק לשני "שערים": "שער התשובה" ו"שער התפלה".

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0181098; Habermann, Habad 27
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Blue Paper:    Checked
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica