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Lot #    22804
Auction End Date    3/3/2009 10:06:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sha’arei Avodah
Title (Hebrew)    שערי עבודה
Author    [Habad - First Ed.] R. Aaron Hurwitz
City    Shklov
Publisher    Ezriel Zelig b. Jacob
Publication Date    1820
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   First editions. [16], 12,17-49, 52, 70, 60, 22 ff., 170:105 mm., wide margins, usual light age and damp staining, old hands and stamps on title. A very good copy bound in later half leather and marbled paper boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description
   Sha’arei Avodah – five essays on kabbalah by R. Aaron b. Moses ha-Levi Hurwitz (c. 1766-1828), the leading disciple of R. Shneur Zalman of Liady and served him for thirty years. After his rebbe’s death the author became Chassidic rebbe of Strashele, and many Lubavicher Chassidim became his followers. The book is based on the Sha’ar ha-Yihud ve-Emunah of the Likutei Amarim – Tanya. The author states in the preface that this work is not his own novellae but rather an explanation of the teachings of his rebbe.
          
Paragraph 2    הנקרא בשם עבודת הבינונים חברו ... מהו' אהרן הלוי ... כפי שרשי העבודה אשר קיבל מרבו ... מוה' שניאור זלמן [מלאדי] ... ומיוסד על ספרי זוהר הק[דוש] וכתבי האר"י ...
          
Reference
Description
   Vinograd, Shklov 208; CD-EPI 0119615
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Blue Paper:    Checked
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica