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Bidding Information
Lot #    19107
Auction End Date    10/9/2007 12:06:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Darkhei Hayyim ve-Shalom - Munkacs
Title (Hebrew)    דרכי חיים ושלום - מונקאטש
Author    [Hasidim - First Ed.] R. Jehiel Mechel Gold
City    Mukachevo
Publisher    Alexander Teichman
Publication Date    1940
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [4], 381, [3] pp., 220:142 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in later boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Customs of R. Hayyim Eleazar Shapira (1872–1937), rabbi of Munkacs from 1913 and hasidic zaddik as assembled by his sexton and disciple Jehiel Mechel Gold. R. Hayyim Eleazar Shapira succeeded in combining talmudic dialectics with the ability to reach halakhic decisions and a wide knowledge of Kabbalah and hasidic learning. He had many admirers and many opponents, and exercised great influence over the rabbis of Hungary even after Munkacs (Mukachevo) had passed to Czechoslovakia. Of lively temperament, he intervened in communal affairs beyond his community, and was even more adamant than his ancestors in opposing all innovation. An extremist opponent of Zionism, Mizrachi, and Agudat Israel, he regarded every organization engaged in the colonization of Erez Israel to be inspired by heresy and atheism. Redemption was to be a miraculous phenomenon, and any natural activity, political or colonizing, was liable to lead to a holocaust. He opposed the Balfour Declaration. On the other hand, he supported the "old yishuv" and was the president of the Kolel Munkacs in Jerusalem. In 1930 he visited Palestine, where he met and encouraged the anti-Zionist elements. His Hasidim viewed this journey as an apocalyptical act. After the example of his father, he called for the maintenance of traditional education and for its financial support. He opposed the Hebrew schools which were established in eastern Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, and condemned the Hebrew secondary school of his town. His struggles were not only ideological, and he occasionally became involved in local disputes with rival zaddikim, waging a campaign of many years with the zaddik of Belz, Issachar Dov Roke'ah, who lived in Mukachevo from 1918 to 1921. His works include Minhat Elazar, responsa (1–4, 1902–30); Divrei Kodesh, sermons (1933); Hamishah Ma'amarot (1922); and Sefer Mashmi'a Yeshu'ah (1919, 1956).
          
Paragraph 2    אוצר כל המנהגים, ופסקי הלכות על סדר הש"ע. ונוסחאות התפלה שנהג ... מרן חיים אלעזר שפירא זי"ע אב דפק"ק מונקאטש והגלילות עם הגהות והערות ... על מקור מוצאם מש"ס ... ומדרשים. וזוה"ק וכתבי האר"י ותלמידי הבעל שם טוב ועוד ... ומכמה כתבי יד. נערך ונסדר מזעירא דמן חבריא מתלמידי רבינו ... יחיאל מיכל גאלד. (יוצא לאור ע"י ר' שלמה גאלדשטיין נ"י שהי' משמש בקודש אצל רבינו) ...

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0171330; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica