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Lot #    19501
Auction End Date    1/8/2008 10:27:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Zaddik R. Joseph Sundel Salant
Title (Hebrew)    הצדיק ר' יוסף זונדל מסלאנט ורבותיו
Author    [Only Ed.] Eliezer Rivlin
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Solomon
Publication Date    1926
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2] 150 pp. octavo 242:170 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers, split and lacking.
          
Detailed
Description		    First and only edition of this biography of and the writings of R. Joseph Sundel ben Benjamin Benish Salant by Eliezer Rivlin. A third section concluding section of the book is on the writings of the Vilna Gaon, including his customs. R. Joseph Sundel ben Benjamin Benish Salant (1786–1866), spiritual father of the Musar movement. A pupil of R. Hayyim Volozhiner and of R. Akiva Eger, he lived in Salant in Lithuania. Despite his great learning, he refused to accept a position as rabbi and barely earned a living as a small merchant, working only a few hours a day and for the rest of the day studying Torah. He conducted himself with extreme modesty, dressing as a humble peasant and never indicating his knowledge of the Torah. In 1831, during the Polish revolution, he was suspected of spying and miraculously saved from hanging. The First of Kislev, the day of his deliverance, was observed by his descendants as a holiday. In 1837 he went to Erez Israel, settling in Jerusalem. While he was still in Vilna, the heads of the Vilna kolel in Jerusalem appointed him to be their rabbi. However, when his son-in-law, R. Samuel Salant, went to Erez Israel he vacated the office in his favor. Nevertheless, many continued to turn to R. Joseph Sundel. He established several institutions in Jerusalem, but occupied no official position in them. In Jerusalem too he refused to support himself from public funds and opened a vinegar factory. His humility and good-heartedness, which became legendary, greatly influenced his student R. Israel Lipkin (Salanter), founder of the Musar movement, who held up Joseph Sundel as the ideal ethical man. In his will he requested no title of honor. He had two additional distinguished sons-in-law, Uri Shabbetai, a member of the Jerusalem bet din, and Nathan Nata Natkin, one of the emissaries of the Holy Land.
          
Paragraph 2    כולל: א. תולדות ... רבי יוסף זונדל ז"ל, ב. כתביו, ג. כתבי הגר"א [ר' אליהו] מווילנא והגר"ח [ר' חיים] מוואלוזין זצ"ל >שלא נדפסו עד היום, ונמצאו בכתבות יד תלמידם ר' יוסף זונדל<. נאסף ונערך, ויצא לאור על ידי אליעזר רבלין, ירושלם, בעזרת יוסף זונדל סלאנט ירושלם - נויארק, בן בנו של ... רבי יוסף זונדל ז"ל.

כולל גם נוסח מיוחד של הנהגות הגר"א ("מעשה רב") מכתבי ר' יוסף זונדל.
          
Reference
Description		    BE zaddi 51; CD-EPI 0175711
        
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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