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Lot #    22604
Auction End Date    1/20/2009 10:49:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Hesed le-Avraham
Title (Hebrew)    חסד לאברהם
Author    [Hasidim] R. Abraham b. Dov Baer of Mezhirichi
City    Lemberg
Publisher    Michael F. Poremba
Publication Date    1858
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Second edition. [10], 40, 20 ff., 209:120 mm., light ge staining, blue paper. A very good copy loose in the original boards, split.
          
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Detailed
Description		    Kabbalistic and Hasidic commentary on the Pentateuch by R. Abraham of Mezhirech, Ha-Malakh, (the Angel; 1741–1776), hasidic sage. A contemporary who watched R. Abraham on the Ninth of Av bewail the destruction of the Temple, remarked: “Then I understood that it was not in vain that he was named by all 'the Angel,' for no man born of woman could have such power.” A solitary ascetic who mainly concentrated on study of Kabbalah, R. Abraham did not emulate the tradition of popular aspects of Hasidism instituted by the Ba'al Shem Tov and by his father, considering them “too earthly.” His ideal of the zaddik was directly opposed to the usual type of such hasidic leaders, being “one who is incapable of leading his contemporaries, one whom they would not tolerate because he is immersed in learning and unable to descend 'to the lowest grade' in order to lift up his generation.” In his youth R. Abraham was a friend of R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady with whom he studied Talmud and Kabbalah in Mezhirech.
          
Paragraph 2    פי שנים בדרושים על התורה ... [מאת] ר' אברהם המלאך זללה"ה בנו של ... מהו' דוב בער ממעזריטש זי"ע. והשני ... [מאת] ... הכהן הגדול מהו' אברהם קאליסקער זצוק"ל, אשר מנוחתו כבוד ... בטבריא ... במצות ובהוצאת ... מוה' ישראל [פרידמאן] מריזין זצללה"ה נכד המלאך ... ע"י ... ר' חיים הלוי מבארדיטשוב נ"י אשר טרח ויגע להביאו לבית הדפוס. ועוד נוסף עליהם ליקוטים ואמרות טהורות מכמה צדיקים מפורסמים כאשר כתוב איש על שמו בראש ספרו ... ... וכעת נדפס ... ע"י ... דוב בעריש לוריא בהמנוח מו"ה טוביהו זאב ...

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Description		    CD-EPI 0106765; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica