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Bidding Information
Lot #    23516
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 10:21:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Torah Or
Title (Hebrew)    תורה אור
Author    [Habad] R. Shneur Zalman of Liady
City    Lvov (Lemberg)
Publisher    Michoel Poremba
Publication Date    1851
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 44 ff., 220:185 mm., usual age staining, paper repairs affecting letters, wide margins, blue paper, bound in modern boards, slipcase.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745–1813), the founder of Chabad Hasidism. He was according to family traditions born in Liozna, Belorussia, on the 18th of Elul. After his marriage in 1760 he devoted himself to Torah study. Concluding that he knew "a little about learning, but nothing about prayer" in 1764 he decided to learn about Hasidism from R. Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezhirech, leader of the Hasidic movement. In Mezhirech he became one of the inner circle of the Maggid's pupils. Although he was one of the youngest pupils, the Maggid had a high opinion of him, and in 1770 delegated to him the task of composing a new and up-to-date Shulhan Arukh. R. Shneur Zalman worked on this book for many years, but published only small parts of it. About one-third was printed posthumously (the rest had been destroyed by fire) and is known as the "Shulhan Arukh of the Rav" (1814). Though not a chasidic work, it represents - as the Maggid had intended - a great halakhic achievement. It evidences R. Shneur Zalman's superb Hebrew style, his ability to provide lucid explanation, and profundity without complexity. It became an authoritative halakhic source among observant Jews.
          
Paragraph 2    על תורה תהלים ושיר השירים מהרב... שניאור זלמן ... ונלוה אליו מאמר (קונטרס) ההתבוננות מבנו... מוה' דוב בעריש [שניאורי ] זצללה"ה. ועד היום היו גנוזים... בכתב ידם... הבאתיו לבה"ד אנכי הצעיר יוסף בהמנוח מוה' אשר אנטשיל רייציס סג"ל.

מאמרים רבים נדפסו כבר בספריו תורה אור ולקוטי תורה. מאמר ההתבוננות הוא חלק שני מספרו של ר' דוב בר שניאורי נר מצוה ותורה אור, קאפוסט תק"ף, ונקרא גם בשם שער היחוד. כאן נדפסו רק לא מתוך נד פרקיו.

          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0181079; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica