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Lot #    22613
Auction End Date    1/20/2009 10:53:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Responsa - Hinnukh Beit Yehudah
Title (Hebrew)    çéðåê áéú éäåãà
Author    [Sadgora Copy] R. Judah Leib ben Enoch Zundel
City    Frankfort on the Main
Publisher    Johann Kellner
Publication Date    1708
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 75 ff. octavo 185:160 mm., nice margins, stamps, light age staining. A very good copy bound in later boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    The R. Nahum Dover Friedmann, Rebbe of Sadgora, copy, with his stamps on title. The Sadgora dynasty of Hasidism, was established by R. Israel Friedmann of Ruzhin who arrived in Sadgora after he was released from prison in Russia and established a magnificent "court" there. His royal style of living aroused opposition from the Hasidim of Zanz. After World War II the center of the Sadgora dynasty was transferred to Erez Israel.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of these responsa on all four sections of the Shulhan Arukh by R. Judah Leib ben Enoch Zundel. The title page, dated with the verse “a threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:12) states in a medium size font that it was printed in Frankfort with letters, in a larger font, Amsterdam, reflecting the prestige of Amsterdam type and books. Hinnukh Beit Yehudah was brought to press by R. Judah Leib’s son R. Hanokh Enoch, av bet din of Schnaittach. There are approbations from R. Naphtali ha-Kohen, R. Samuel Kohen Satin, R. David Oppenheim, and R. Issachar Berman, introductions, and the text, in a single column in rabbinic letters. Hinnukh Beit Yehudah is comprised of one hundred forty-five responsa, including several by the author’s. At the end is an index of the responsa.

Judah Leib Ben Enoch Zundel (1645–1705) was a German rabbi. His father was rabbi of Gnesen (Gniezno), Poznania. As a result of the Chmielnicki persecutions (1648) he fled to Germany and became rabbi of the district of Swabia, settling in Oettingen. R. Judah Leib succeeded him in 1675 but took up his residence in the town of Pfersee, where he remained until his death. In addition to Hinnukh Beit Yehudah R. Judah Leib was also the author of Reshit Bikkurim (Frankfort, 1708), sermons by both R. Judah Leib and his father, and also published by R. Hanokh Enoch. It contains homilies for festivals and Sabbaths based upon Joseph Albo's three principles of faith – the existence of God, revelation, and reward and punishment. According to R. Hanokh Enoch, this work consists of excerpts from a commentary on the whole Bible which Judah Leib had intended publishing.

          
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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