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Lot #    19438
Auction End Date    11/13/2007 12:36:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Luzzatto, Der Weg der Frommen
Title (Hebrew)    מסלת ישרים
Author    R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (Ramhal)
City    Berlin
Publisher    Louis Lamm (H. Itzkowski)
Publication Date    1906
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition of German translation, 214:138 mm., wide margins, usual age light staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Classical ethical work by R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (Ramhal, 1707–1746) with German translation by R. Joseph Wohlgemuth. It was the opinion of the Vilna Gaon, (Gr”a) that, because of the Mesillat Yesharim, R. Luzzato had a greater understanding of the tenets of Judaism than could be attained by any other mortal. Furthermore, the Gr”a stated that if Luzzatto were alive in his generation, he would go to him, from Vilna to Italy, by foot, in order to sit at his feet and learn from him. The Mesillat Yesharim has been frequently reprinted and translated into a number of languages, including several English translations. R. Joseph Wohlgemuth (1867–1942), rabbi, educator, and theologian, was born in Memel, as a child moved with his family to Hamburg, where his grandfather R. Isaiah Wohlgemuth became stipendiary rabbi (Klausrabbiner). R. Wohlgemuth studied at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary and at the university, teaching at the same time and for many years afterward at the Adass Yisroel religious school. In 1895 he was appointed tutor and lecturer in religious philosophy, homiletics, and practical halakhah at the seminary, where he exercised considerable influence on several generations of students for the Orthodox rabbinate. In 1932 broken health forced him to retire to a sanatorium in Frankfort. R. Wohlgemuth's published works include: Die Unsterblichkeitslehre in der Bibel (1899); Beitraege zu einer juedischen Homiletik (1904); Das juedische Religionsgesetz in juedischer Beleuchtung (2 vols., 1911–19), a study of the problem of Ta'amei ha-Mitzvot (the ideology of the practical commandments); Bildungsprobleme in der Ostjudenfrage (1916); Das Tier und seine Wertung im Judentum (1930); and Grundgedanken der Religionsphilosophie Max Schelers (1931). His Der badische Gebetbuchentwurf... (1907) and Gesetzestreues und liberales Judentum (1913) are a defense of Orthodoxy against Reform. In Der Weltkrieg im Lichte des Judentums (1915), he extolled Germany's "civilizing mission." Wohlgemuth also translated (with J. Bleichrode (1899, 19397) R. M. H. Luzzatto's ethical guide, Mesillat Yesharim (1906) into German. A Festschrift was issued in honor of his 60th birthday (Juedische Studien, 1928).
          
Paragraph 2    ... בהגהה מדויקת עם העתקה ללשון אשכנז ומבוא אל הספר ומראה מקומות ממני יוסף וואהלגמוט...

Luzzatto. Neu herausgegeben, uebersetzt, und mit einer Einleitung und Quellenangaben versehen von Dr. J. Wohlgemuth... שער-נוסף: מסלת ישרים, Chajim Mosche .R von , בשולי העמודים הערות המהדיר
          
Reference
Description		    EJ, CD-EPI 0143492
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Ethics
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica