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Lot #    24211
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 12:45:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefer Hadranim
Title (Hebrew)    ספר הדרנים פרי עץ הדר מהאדרת והאמונה
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Judah Leib Levin
City    St. Louis
Publisher    Moinester Printing Co.
Publication Date    1922
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. Part 2 & 3 of 3, [4], 162; [3], 224 pp., 220:148 mm., 145-160 bound in upside down, nice margins, light age staining. A good copy loose in contemporary boards, split and detached..
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Judah Leib Levin, the son of a religious farmer, was born in Traby, Vilna Province, ca. 1862. He studied in Volozhin and Kovno and was ordained by R. Naphtali Zevi Yehudah Berlin [Netziv], R. Isaac Elhanan Spektor, R. Isaac Meir of Slobodka, R. Solomon Hacohen of Vilna and R. Isaac Blaser. He was appointed the rabbi of Liskiava, Suwalki Province, at the age of twenty-four and he immigrated to America five years later. He served as a rabbi in Rochester for one and a half years and then returned to Russia. He served as a rabbi in Krevo, but remained there only for half a year before coming back to America. After four years as a rabbi in New Haven's Congregation Bikur Cholim, in 1897 he was invited by three Orthodox synagogues of Detroit to serve as their rabbi. R. Levin remained there for the rest of his life and he helped support the needs of the community during a period when it was experiencing tremendous growth. He founded the United Orthodox Hebrew Congregations to strengthen his synagogues and he established schools, asylums and kashruth organiza­tions. He was also a founder of Mizrahi and Agudath Harabbonim. R. Levin was an inventor by avocation and he secured patents for a calculating machine, a model of which was placed on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute. He died in 1926, leaving many unpublished manuscripts.

This work is vols. 2-3 of Haderet ve-ha-Emunah. Vol. 2 contains Talmudic novellae, correspon­dence with R. Moses Kiliers of Tiberias and Talmudic and Mishnaic hadranim. Vol. 3 contains sermons for the lections of Genesis, a eulogy for R. Hayyim Soloveichik and miscellaneous writings. The approbations are from vol. 1. It is not clear if vols. 2 and 3 were issued separately or together. The title pages to each record the imprint information and vol. 3 has its own dedication page, but both volumes have a continuous collation and approba­tions appear only in vol. 2.

          
Paragraph 2    ... ממני יהודה ליב לעווין, הרב דאגודת הקהלות דפה דעטראיט... ולפנים דנאוהייווען קאנג', ודראטשעסטער נויארק, ולפני פנים הרב דעיר ליסקאוויי פלך סובאלק... חלק א-ג.

הסכמות: ר' יעקב דוד רידב"ז, צפת, תר"ס; - חלק א ר' מ"ז [משה זבולון] מרגלית החוב"ק נויארק, לאנג-ברענץ, ו ואתחנן תר"ף. - חלק א

חלק א: מאמרים... באגדות חז"ל בתורה נביאים וכתובים. (הס' תר"ף). [3], קפח עמ'. חלק ב: ספר "הדרנים" פרי עץ הדר מהאדרת והאמונה... הדרנים על דרך הלכה ברורה על הסדרים ועל מסכתות שבש"ס. תרפ"ב. קסב עמ'. חלק ב: עם ההסכמות מחלק א. חלק ג: דרושים... באגדות חז"ל, בתורה נביאים וכתובים, מסודרים על פרשות השבוע. תרפ"ב. [3], קסו-רכד עמ'.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0142993; HPA 647
        
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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