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Lot #
19736
Auction End Date
1/8/2008 12:25:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
English Judaica - The Sabbaths of the Lord
Title (Hebrew)
ùðúåú ä'
Author
Prof. Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
City
London
Publisher
Goodman’s Fields
Publication Date
1858
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. viii, 374 pp. octavo 217:130 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed and split on inner seam.
Detailed
Description
Discourses in English on the weekly Torah readings and Haftarot by Professor Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (d. 1864), professor of Hebrew. The full title is The Sabbaths of the Lord being Sabbath Meditations on the Pentateuch and Haphtorahs, each meditation concluding with an appropriate prayer. The author humbly dedicates the book to his mother Gutel Bresslau. There is a preface from Prof. Bresslau in which he writes that “The want of domestic Sabbath reading, such as is calculated to instruct and to edify, has been so long and so strongly felt in the Jewish community, that no apologetic remarks are required for the introduction of this volume. In the house of divine worship, the law is read in the original and sacred tongue, according to ancient custom, but many, alas! Are not conversant with the Hebrew language – it is recited, but not propounded. . . . even the regular attendant feels anxious to devote some part of the sacred day to ernest reflection; and after six days of worldly labour and anxiety longs for the Day of Rest, think of higher, nobler, and more lasting objects; he also stands in need of such occupation during the remainder of the day as will tend to his mental refreshment and consecrate it a ‘Day of the Lord.’” Prof. Bresslau has, therefore, prepared these readings on the weekly Sabbath portions and Haftarot, with the object of enlightening obscurities and deducing moral lessons. The text is on each weekly Torah reading followed by a prayer. Prof. Bresslau was also the author of the much reprinted Otsar leshon ‘Ivri ve-Kasdi = Hebrew and English dictionary, biblical and rabbinical: containing the Hebrew and Chaldee roots of the Old Testament post-biblical writings and also translated Paths of truth: being a defense of the Talmudic traditions against the attacks in the "Old paths" by the Rev. Dr. M'Caul / by Rabbi Judah Middleman.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
England:
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Subject
Homiletics:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
English, some Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
