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Lot #    23291
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 11:40:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Torat Nevu’ah Tohorah
Title (Hebrew)    תורת הנבואה הטהורה - שם-טוב גפן
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Shemtov ben Mordecai Gefen
City    Cairo
Publisher    Hayyim Vasell
Publication Date    1923
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. vi, [2], 128 pp., octavo, 218:134 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Mathematical and philosophical work establishing a synthesis between science and tradition by R. Shem tov ben Mordecai Gefen (1856-1933). R. Gefen, who was born in the Ukraine and died in Tel-Aviv was a Talmudic scholar (both Bavli and Yerusahlmi) and was well read in Kabbalah, Jewish and general philosophy-science, and science. He is known to have been an original thinker as well as an innovator in the Hebrew language. No less a personage than R. Abraham Isaac Kook described R. Gefen as “a man with perfect Torah and scientific knowledge.” Torat Nevu’ah Tohorah has a subtitle, The Mathematical Philosophy of the Ein Sof. Below the Hebrew title is a French translation, Philosophie mathématique de l'infini : essai mathematique, basant les phénomènes de l'univers sur les propriétés mathématiques de l'infini. The text is in a single column in unvocalized Hebrew, and is accompanied by numerous footnotes.
          
Paragraph 2    או הפלוספיה המתמתית של האין-סוף; מסה מתמתית המבססת את חזיונות המכלל על סגלות המתמתיות של האין סוף, [מאת] שם-טוב גפן.

מאמר ראשון: עיון בהתחלות הראשונות; מאמר שני: עיון בנבואה ובמופתים. במעטפת הסכמה נוספת ממנו: ירושלים, ה מרחשון תרפ"ג. הסכמה: ר' אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק, [ירושלים], טו טבת תרפ"א.

          
Reference
Description		    Ralph Shuchat, “Attitudes Towards Cosmology and Evolution among Rabbinic Thinkers in the nineteenth and Early twentieth Centuries: the Resurgence of the Doctrine of the Sabbatical Year,” Torah u-Madda Journal, 2005; CD-EPI 0117671
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Egypt
  
Subject
Other:    Philosophy
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica