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Lot #    20621
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 10:54:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Hilkhot Netilat Yedei'im
Title (Hebrew)    הלכות נטילת ידים לסעודה
Author    [Habad] R. Shneur Zalman of Liady
City    Piotrkow
Publisher    Shlomo Belchatovsky
Publication Date    1911
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition of commentary. [4], 3-85 pp., quarto, 221:153 mm., usual age staining, nice margins, stamps. A good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745–1813), the founder of Habad Hasidism. He was according to family traditions born in Liozna, Belorussia, on the 18th of Elul. After his marriage in 1760 he devoted himself to Torah study. Concluding that he knew "a little about learning, but nothing about prayer" in 1764 he decided to learn about Hasidism from R. Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezhirech, leader of the Hasidic movement. In Mezhirech he became one of the inner circle of the Maggid's pupils. Although he was one of the youngest pupils, the Maggid had a high opinion of him, and in 1770 delegated to him the task of composing a new and up-to-date Shulhan Arukh. R. Shneur Zalman worked on this book for many years, but published only small parts of it. About one-third was printed posthumously (the rest had been destroyed by fire) and is known as the "Shulhan Arukh of the Rav" (1814). Though not a chasidic work, it represents - as the Maggid had intended - a great halakhic achievement. It evidences R. Shneur Zalman's superb Hebrew style, his ability to provide lucid explanation, and profundity without complexity. It became an authoritative halakhic source among observant Jews.
          
Paragraph 2    ... וסביב לו ספר לקוטי מהרי"ט, אשר יגעתי ואספתי מהרבה ספרים ... כל הספיקות ופרטי דינים ... ועשיתי לוח המפתחות ... גם נספח לבסוף דינים נחוצים, מאתי יו"ט נעטיל (בן לא"א צבי דוב) בראנשפיגעל מלאדז נכד המחבר טהור רעיונים [ר' יום-טוב נעטיל ב"ר מנחם] ...
          
Reference
Description		    Mundschein, Tanya p. 248-9, # 24; CD-EPI 0181151
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
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Hasidic:    Checked
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Characteristic
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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