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Lot #    20083
Auction End Date    2/19/2008 12:01:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Divrei Hayyim - Responsa
Title (Hebrew)    שו'ת דברי חיים
Author    R. Hayyim Halberstam
City    Bilgoraj
Publisher    Sz. Sikora i Milner, Warszawa
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2], 276, [2]; [3], 260 pp., 367:234 mm., usual light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy loose in contemporary half cloth boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa by R. Hayyim b. Arye Loeb Halberstam (1793–1876), founder of the Zanz hasidic dynasty was born in Tarnogrod. As a youth Hayyim was brought to R. Jacob Isaac the hozeh ("seer") of Lublin who strongly influenced him and he became a Hasid; he studied under R. Naphtali of Ropczyce and R. Zevi Hirsch of Zhidachov. R. Hayyim also studied with R. Zevi Hirsch of Rymanow, R. Shalom Rokeah of Belz, and R. Israel of Ruzhin. In 1830 he was appointed rabbi of Nowy Sacz (Zanz). R. Hayyim administered his yeshivah in the best scholarly tradition of the old-style yeshivot in Poland. He would not permit his pupils to cultivate Hasidism until a late stage. Thus both Hasidim and mitnaggedim were attracted to his yeshivah. Known as strict in matters of learning and observance, he conducted his "court" modestly and discreetly and avoided the splendor and luxury customary at the "courts" of other zaddikim in that period. R. Hayyim wrote: Divrei Hayyim (Zolkiew, 1864), on ritual purity and divorce laws; responsa Divrei Hayyim (Lemberg, 1875), and Divrei Hayyim (Munkacz, 1877), hasidic sermons on Torah and the festivals. His works reveal a profound knowledge of the Talmud and commentaries, the midrashim, and medieval philosophical literature. He quotes widely from R. Judah Halevi's Kuzari, Maimonides, Nahmanides, and R. Abraham ibn Daud. From later literature, he cites R. Isaiah Horowitz, R. Judah Loew of Prague, the prayer book of R. Jacob Emden, and his teachers in Kabbalah and Hasidism. An opponent of asceticism, R. Hayyim was an exponent of the ecstatic mode of prayer and developed the hasidic melody. In his writings he emphasized the duty of charity and criticized zaddikim who lived luxuriously.
          
Paragraph 2    .. אשר אספתי ... מהתשובות שהשבתי ופלפלתי עם גדולי חכמי דורינו אנכי הצעיר ... חיים הרב דק' צאנז. הוגה ע"י הרבנים נכדי המחבר שליט"א. ... ועתה נדפס מחדש ע"י ... ר' יצחק ישעי' הלברשטאם שליט"א חונה בק' קראקא ... בנו של ... המחבר זצללה"ה. חלק א-ב.

בשער: נסדר בדפוס נתן נטע קראנענבערג, בילגורייא. לחלק ב שער מיוחד. נדפס דף-על-דף על-פי בארדיאב תרס"ב, אלא שה"הגהות ותקונים" תוקנו כמעט כולם בפנים.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0118605; EJ; M. Buber, Tales of the Hasidim, 2 (1963), pp. 208–15; H. Rabinowicz, The World of Hasidim (1970), p. 227
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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