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Bidding Information
Lot #    20902
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 10:50:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Zemah Zedek
Title (Hebrew)    צמח צדק - שאלות ותשובות
Author    [Habad - First Ed.]
City    Vilna
Publisher    Fine, Rosenkrantz
Publication Date    1870
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Two volumes, 337:224 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novellae, responsa, and expositions to the Shulhan Arukh, Even ha-Ezer by R. Menahem Mendel Schneersohn. R. Schneersohn (1789–1866), grandson of R. Shneur Zalman (son of his daughter) and son-in-law of R. Dov Baer, became the leader of Chabad after his father-in-law's death. Orphaned while young, he was educated chiefly by his grandfather, and from a very early age began to write on halakhah and Hasidism. He wrote numerous books and sermons, most of which remained in manuscript. He was generally acknowledged as one of the greatest Torah scholars of his day. His responsa Zemah Zedek (1870–74, in honor of which he is referred to as the "Zemah Zedek") is a highly esteemed halakhic work. R. Menahem Mendel greatly assisted the Habad settlers in Hebron. The Russian government accorded him the hereditary title of an honored citizen, and he was acknowledged as one of the leaders of Russian Jewry. He fought the assimilationist policy of the government and the adherents of Haskalah who gave it their support. The year before his death, no longer able to fulfill his manifold duties, he assigned them to his sons.
          
Paragraph 2    אבן העזר. הובא לביה"ד ע"י בניו... ובני בניו. תרל"א-תרל"ב. חלק א-ב. אבן העזר, חלק א: תרל"א. [כרך I]: הלכות אישות ועגונות. דפוס יוסף ראובן ראם. [5], 294 עמ'. II: הלכות קדושין. דפוס שמואל יוסף פין ואברהם צבי ראזענקראנץ. [2], 164, [2] עמ'. אבן העזר, חלק ב: תרל"ב. דפוס שמואל יוסף פין ואברהם צבי ראזענקראנץ. I: הלכות גיטין ושמות גיטין. [4], 200 עמ'. II: הלכות גיטין, יבום וחליצה. [2], 270 עמ'.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0181009; EJ; J. I. Schneersohn, The Tzemach Tzedek and the Haskala Movement (1962); A. H. Glicenstein, Rabbenu ha-Zemah Zedek (1967).
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
Novellae:    Checked
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica