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Lot #    24069
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 11:36:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Aderet Elijah, Part II
Title (Hebrew)    אדרת אלי', ח'ב
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Elijah Zev Katsin (Kochin)
City    Pittsburgh
Publication Date    1925
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 112 p., quarto, 230:155 mm., light age staining, nice margins. A good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed. Volume 2 of 3 published over of span of 20 years. This part not in Deinard (Part 1, #12).
          
Detailed
Description		    Aderet contains sermons, eulogies, responsa and brief essays on Jewish law reflecting the social atmosphere of the community by R. Elijah Zev b. Eliezer Katsin (Kochin; 1872-1946), rabbi and preacher. He was born in Rumsiskes, Lithuania and studied in various Lithuanian yeshivot. R. Katsin was ordained by leading Lithuanian rabbis, includ­ing R. Solomon Hacohen of Vilna, R. Yehiel Mikhel Halevi Epstein and R. Isaac Jacob Reines. He assumed the position of rabbi in Dabrowice, Volhynia, in 1899, but his career was interrupted in 1905. While the Russo­-Japanese War was waging and the land was gripped by famine, his "town became desolate" after all the houses, synagogues and schools were destroyed in a conflagra­tion. Fortuitously, Katsin was at this point invited to serve as a rabbi in Pittsburgh. Though he feared coming to the "land of the free," i.e. free in terms of observance, R. David of Karlin advised him to accept the position since G-d promised in Ex. 20:21 that "in every place that I permit my name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you." R. Katsin discovered that his fears were not unwarranted and, as late as 5677 [1917], he wrote, "I will only speak the truth, that the city of Pittsburgh is still hefkerr [anarchic] and it lacks everything necessary for the highest level of observance." R. Katsin did note that he received support from his synagogues and he singled out, in particular, Joshua Isaac Goldberg. In addition to serving as a pulpit rabbi in var­ious congregations, he also established and headed the Pittsburgh Hebrew Seminary (Hebrew Religious Academy) and was a member of Agudath Harabbonim.
          
Paragraph 2    ... כולל... דרושים המבארים את מצב ישראל... בימי גלותו... עד היום... דרושים של מועדים... ולכל שבתות השנה ... וכמה שמעתתא... הלכה למעשה... מאתי אליהו זאב קאצין בהרב ר' אליעזר חופ"ק פיטטסבורג, פא. מלפנים רב אב"ד מדאמבראוויץ

הסכמות: ר' אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק, ירושלים, ג סיון תרפ"ו; ר' דן רפאל פלאצקי, אסטראב; ר' ברוך הלוי עפשטיין, פיטסבורג, כח שבט תר"ף; ר' משה מרדכי עפשטיין, חברון.

חלק א: דפוס יוסף זעליג גליק, בשנת ע'ז'ר'ת' [תרע"ז]. 8, 88 עמ'. חלק א: עמ' 8-3:"מכתבי תהלה" והמלצות מרבנים שונים. חלק ב: חש"מ, תרפ"ה. 112 עמ'. חלק ג: חש"מ, תרצ"ג. [7], 112 עמ'.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0163177; HPA
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica