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Lot #    18929
Auction End Date    10/9/2007 10:36:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Birkhat Avraham
Title (Hebrew)    ברכת אברהם
Author    [Only Ed. - Hasidim] R. Abraham Elhanan ben Judah
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Isaac Rather
Publication Date    1870
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [3], 48, [1], 38, [3] ff. quarto 240:170 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of this two part work on the weekly Torah portion and novellae on Talmudic tractates by R. Abraham Elhanan ben Judah av bet din in Plantish. He was a student of R. Levi Isaac of Berdichev. There are approbations from R. Dov Berush Meislish, R. Hayyim Halberstam, R. Jacob Aryeh Gutterman, R. Jacob David Kalish, and R. Jacob Isaac Shapira. There is also a commendatory letter from R. Jacob Isaac ben Abraham Eliezer ha-Levi Horowitz to the author. Next is an introduction from R. Abraham Elhanan ben Dov Zevi, the author’s grandson. The text is in two columns in rabbinic letter. The first part is on the weekly parashah, concluding with likkutei pesukim on other books of the Bible and novellae on tractates and midrashim. The second part of Birkhat Avraham, with new foliation, is novellae on tractates, beginning with Berakhot and concluding with Niddah. The volume is completed several leaves of additional material on Bava Batra.
          
Paragraph 2    מאת ... מו"ה אברהם אלחנן זלה"ה אבד"ק פלאנטש יע"א. תלמידו של הרב ... מו"ה לוי יצחק מברדיטשאב ...

דף [2,ב]: איגרת ר' יעקב יצחק ב"ר אברהם אליעזר הלוי הורוויץ, לובלין, אל המחבר [בלא תאריך]. דף [3,א]: הקדמת נכד המחבר, ר' אברהם אלחנן ב"ר דוב צבי. דף א-לט: ברכת אברהם; פשטים על התורה. דף מ-מח, [1]: ליקוטי פסוקים ומאמרים ומדרשים. דף א-לח, [3]: חידושים בש"ס.

הסכמות: ר' דוב בערוש מייזלש, ווארשא, כב מרחשון תר"ל; ר' חיים האלברשטאם, צאנז, כה תשרי תרכ"ח; ר' יעקב אריה [גוטערמאן], ראדזימין, ג אלול תרכ"ט; ר' יעקב דוד [קאליש], אמשנאוו, יד מרחשון [תר"ל]; ר' יעקב יצחק [שפירא] ממאגלניצא, בלענדאווי, ח מרחשון תר"ל.

          
Reference
Description		    BE alef 1601; CD-EPI 0106738
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
Halacha:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica