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Lot #    20889
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 10:43:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sha’alu Shelom Yerushalayim
Title (Hebrew)    שאלו שלום ירושלם
Author    R. Moses Nehemiah ben Meshullam Phoebus Kahanov
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Abraham Rottenberg
Publication Date    1868
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    40 pp. octavo 165:110 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    First Jerusalem edition of this popular work on the state of Jerusalem and its citizens by R. Moses Nehemiah ben Meshullam Phoebus Kahanov. Sha’alu Shelom Yerushalayim emphasizes the sages of Jerusalem, their Torah, and their high ethical standards, as well as related subjects. The text is divided into fifteen responsa and set in a single column in rabbinic type. Pagination is in error. R. Moses Nehemiah ben Meshullam Phoebus Kahanov (1817–1883) was a Jerusalem talmudist. He was born in Belorussia but after his marriage at the age of 15, settled in Petrovice where at the age of 18 he was appointed assistant to the local rabbi. Some years later, he became rabbi of Khaslavich, a city noted for its scholars. In 1864 he set out for Jerusalem. On his arrival, after a journey of six months, he was appointed head of the Eẓ Ḥayyim yeshivah, the most important in Jerusalem, remaining in this position until his death. Kahanov was remarkably progressive for his time and environment. He appealed for the founding of industrial enterprises, a daring proposal for that time. He even consented to the proposal of Sir Moses Montefiore to introduce the teaching of the vernacular, Arabic, in his yeshivah, but was obliged to abandon the proposal in the face of pressure from extremist elements. One of the first of the old yishuv to speak only Hebrew, he was also one of those who encouraged settlement outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, building a house for himself in Nahlat Shivah. Among his publications were Ereẓ Ḥefeẓ (1884), on laws of terumah and tithes; Ḥukkot Olam (1886), on mixed species (kilayim ); Mei Menuḥot (c. 1860) on the laws of the sabbath, to which was appended Palgei Mayim, giving rules for those traveling by ship on the sabbath; and Netivot ha-Shalom on the Shulḥan Arukh (pt. 1 (1858, 18752), pt. 2 (1861)). He applied himself particularly to the question of the application of the laws of the sabbatical year which had become of practical importance with the establishment of the Jewish agricultural colonies, and in this connection published Shenat ha-Sheva (1881). The eulogies he delivered on the deaths of Baron Asher Rothschild and Sir Moses Montefiore were published. His will was published in 1968 (Siftei Yeshenim, Jerusalem) together with a responsum on Jerusalem and a brief biography.
          
Paragraph 2    ... ממצב העיר הקדש ת"ו לעת הזאת בהנוגע לאחב"י היושבים שמה... כל אלה העלה על הספר רב גדול... מחשובי ירושלם [ר' משה נחמיה כאהאנאוו] בשבתו באניה לרדת חו"ל >בחדש אייר תרכ"ז< ... ונלוה לו סדר אמירת קרבן פסח לפי מנהג הגר"א...

בעמ' הפנימי של המעטפת הימנית: אכתוב ד"א [דבר אחד] בקצרה מע"א שעסקתי בעת הדפסת הקונטרס.

          
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Description		    BE shin 49; EJ; CD-EPI 0141098
        
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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