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Lot #    21678
Auction End Date    10/7/2008 11:28:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Yeshu'ot Yisrael
Title (Hebrew)    ישועות ישראל
Author    [First Ed.] R. Israel Joshua Trunk of Kutno
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Joel Levensohn
Publication Date    1870
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [2], 148, [2] ff., 320:195 mm., light age staining, nice margins, old hands. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    With unrecorded [1] f. - list of financial backers.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Israel Joshua Trunk (1820–1893), was born in Plock, Poland, Trunk soon developed a reputation as a prodigy and great scholar. He served as the rabbi of Szrensk (from 1840), Gabin (from 1847), Warka (from 1850), Poltusk (from 1853), and from 1861 to the end of his life he was rabbi of Kutno and was known throughout the Jewish world as R. Israel Joshua Trunk of Kutno. He was close to Hasidism, especially to the rebbe of Gur, R. Isaac Meir. He joined the Hibbat Zion movement with the initial activity of R. Zevi Hirsch Kalischer, whom he encouraged in his letters. In 1886 R. Trunk visited Erez Israel and encouraged the pioneers who were then experiencing the initial difficulties of settlement. He was among the rabbis who permitted agricultural work during the sabbatical year in Erez Israel. A halakhic authority, only one of his books on halakhah, Yeshu'ot Yisrael (1870), on Shulhan Arukh Hoshen Mishpat, was published during his lifetime. The remainder were published posthumously by his grandson as Yeshu'ot Malko (1927–39), novellae, and Yavin Da'at (1932), on Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah with responsa.
          
Paragraph 2    על שולחן ערוך חושן משפט חלק ראשון ובו נכלל שני באורים [א] עין משפט; פלפול בשלחן ערוך ונושאי כלים והרבה חדושים בגדולי הראשונים ... [ב] חוקת המשפט; קיצור דינים המבוארים בנו"כ וגם מה שהוסיף ... המחבר מדעתו. חברו ... ר' ישראל יהושע שליט"א הרב דק"ק קוטנא. הובא לביה"ד ע"י בן הרב המחבר מוה' משה פנחס נ"י ...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0134924; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica