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Lot #    23793
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 12:55:19 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Divrei Shemu'el
Title (Hebrew)    דברי שמואל
Author    [First Ed. - Hasidic] R. Samuel Shmelke Horowitz
City    [Lvov]
Publication Date    1862
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [2], 5-58 ff., 245:175 mm., nice margins, usual light age staining. A good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Homiletic and kabbalistic commentaries to the Pentateuch by R. Samuel Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburgh (1726–1778), rabbi and kabbalist in Poland and Galicia. R. Samuel was the elder brother of R. Phinehas b. Zevi Hirsch Horowitz and in their youth both were among the disciples of R. Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezhirech. Samuel, who did much to spread Hasidism in Poland and Galicia, served as a rabbi in several towns there: Rychwal, 1754, and Sieniawa, 1766; from 1773 he officiated in Nikolsburg (Mikulov), Moravia, first as av bet din and later as rabbi of the province. This last appointment gave rise to bitter opposition, but Empress Maria Theresa confirmed him in office by virtue of his Hasidism and Orthodoxy, "even though he does not know German and is not versed in the laws of the land." Samuel is considered one of the pioneers of Hasidism, of whom miraculous stories are related in hasidic legend. In fact, however, he did not wholly accept the Hasidism taught by R. Israel b. Eliezer Ba'al Shem Tov. Though he surrounded himself with young scholars and educated them in Hasidism, R. Samuel was an ascetic who remained in his home and kept people at a distance. An undertone of protest against the prevailing atmosphere of folly and levity among the Hasidim can be discerned in his teachings. Among his works are Divrei Shemu'el (1862), which contains homiletic and kabbalistic commentaries and novellae on Bava Batra and on the laws on festivals in Orah Hayyim; and Nezir ha-Shem (1869), which includes novellae on the Shulhan Arukh, Even ha-Ezer. R. Samuel took part in the literary controversy over Hasidism requesting that the rabbis of Brody refrain from imposing the Vilna ban on Hasidism and discount the accusations that Hasidim opposed tradition.
          
Paragraph 2    חיבור... על התורה אשר השאיר אחריו ברכה... מוה' שמואל שמעלקא הלוי איש הורוויץ זצלה"ה אבד"ק ניקלשפורג וריטשוואל והמדינה... ודרש טוב לעמו מידי שבת בשבתו וימים טובים... על חמשה חומשי תורה והנהגות ישרות ומעט ליקוטים. ועל איזה שיטות. ושאלה ותשובה. ומעט על ש"ע אורח חיים הלכות יו"ט מה שמצאתי תוך הכתבים העתקים... הכתבים הללו היו טמונים... זה קרוב לשבעים שנים בתוך אוצרות כתבי יד מוח"ז הרב... המגיד [ר' ישראל] זצלה"ה מקאזניץ... הובאו לבית הדפוס ע"י מוהר"ר משה הכהן נ"י חתן... מוה' ישכר [הופשטיין] זצלה"ה נכד הרב המגיד זצוקללה"ה מקאזניץ... לפרט ויהי' ד'בר' ה' א'ל' ש'מ'ו'א'ל' לאמר

דף נב,ב-נח: חדושי הלכות. בבא בתרא, דף קעה; שו"ת בענין שבועת הכתובה; ש"ע א"ח הלכות יו"ט סי' תצה, תצז-תצח. יש כנראה טפסים ששם המדפיס ומקום הדפוס מפורשים.

הסכמות: ר' ישעיה מושקאט, פראגא, כא סיון תרכ"ב; ר' יוסף שאול הלוי נאטנזאהן, לבוב.

          
Reference
Description		    A. Walden, in: Shem ha-Gedolim he-Hadash (1864), 70–71; CD-EPI 0137617 ([2], 58 ff.); BE 570.1
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
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Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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