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Dorash Tov le-Amo, Part II - Eleven discourses by R. Mordecai Zevi Schwartz. The title page describes it as discourses, important and substantial, on sockets of faith, on the principles of religion, essays deep and sweet. They are wondrous matters, entering into the readers’ hearts. It describes R. Schwartz as a rav ofg a kehilla in London.This volume is part two the first volume having been printed in 1917. The first volume had six approbations, from R. Israel Hayyim Dachs, R. Samuel Isaac Helman, R. Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook, R. Meir Zevi Jung, R. Sharia Isaac Bloch, and R. Avigdor Schonfeld. Each of the discourses are on several Torah readings, not necessarily following each other. For example, the first discourse is on Bereshit, Noah, Ki Sisah, Ethanan, and ha-Azinu, addressing the question of why at times there is a zaddik and evil befalls him, a zaddik and it is good for him, a wicked person and it is good for him and a wicked person and evil befalls him as well as other weighty questions related to every person.
Dabru al Lev by R. BenZion Eisenstadt, homilies and extended writings. R. Benzion Eisenstadt (1873–1951), was born in Kletsk, Belorussia. In his youth he was attracted to modern Hebrew literature and while in his teens corresponded with Jewish scholars, such as Slonimski and Buber. While still in Russia he published Zioni (Warsaw, 1895; Parts 2–4, Vilna 1899–1902), a biographical dictionary of contemporary rabbis and scholars, and Rabbanei Minsk va-Hakhameha, on the rabbis and scholars of Minsk (Vilna, 1899), as well as Ve-Zot li-Yehudah (1901), annotations on Noda bi-Yehudah, the responsa of R. Ezekiel Landau.
In 1903 he emigrated to the U.S. where, in addition to talmudic works, he continued to publish biographical works on well-known rabbis, scholars and communal leaders. They include Hakhmei Yisrael be-Amerikah (with photographs, 1903), Dorot ha-Aharonim (2 vols., 1913, 1917), Anshei ha-Shem Be-Arzot ha-Brit (1933) and, posthumously Benei Hiyyon (1952).
Minhat Ya'akov by R. Jacob ben Judah Leib Gordon Discourses for Shabat and festivals by R. Jacob ben Judah Leib Gordon. There are two title pages, the first multi-colored providing the title, author and place of publication, and a second informing that Minhat Ya'akov is for Shabbat, festivals, and various occasions. R. Jacob David Ridbaz gave an approbation for the book. Next is a detailed description of the twenty discourses comprising Minhat Ya'akov, on such varied subjects as signs of faith, honoring parents, emet le-Ya’akov, a dead fly, four exiles, four parashiot, hatred of brothers, burial places of the Avot, and lastly like a king. Each of the derashot encompass sub-topics.
R. Jacob ben Judah Leib Gordon (1877–1934), Canadian rabbi. Gordon was born in Danilowicz, and studied at Lithuanian yeshivot. He emigrated to Toronto in 1904 where he was recognized as the city's senior communal Orthodox rabbi. He helped found the Mizrachi movement in Toronto. In 1908 he helped establish the Simcoe Street talmud torah, the first in the city to use Hebrew as the language of instruction and precursor of the Associated Hebrew Schools. In 1919 Gordon addressed the founding conference of the Canadian Jewish Congress in Montreal on the subject of the five-day work week and its relationship to Sabbath observance. His writings include Minhat Ya'akov (1914) and "Dovev Siftei Yeshenim," on spiritualism, and "Nezirut min ha-Basar," on vegetarianism, both in manuscript. |
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דרושים ... חובר מאתי ... מרדכי צבי (בלאאמוה"ר רפאל) שווארץ, רב דקה"י באו בלאנדאן ... חלק ב.
הסכמות: ר' ישראל חיים דייכעס, ליעדז, א ויקרא תרע"ז; - חלק א ר' שמואל יצחק הילמן, לונדון, נשיא ג [ג ניסן] תרע"ז; - חלק א ר' אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק, לונדון, ג כסלו תרע"ז; - חלק א ר' מאיר צבי יונג, לונדון, ג ויצא תרע"ז; - חלק א ר' שמרי' יצחק בלאך, לונדון, טו טבת תרע"ז; - חלק א ר' אביגדור שנפעלד, לונדון, יז סיון תרע"ז. - חלק ב: יא דרושים. שנת ע'ט'ר'ת' [תרע"ט]. [4], קכד עמ'.
דברו על לב ולל הגיונות, דרשות, הטפות ונאמים חדשים לעורר את הלב לכל קדשי התורה והמצוה, הדת והחיים המוסריים, לחגים ולמועדי ישראל, אשר נשאתי בקהלת הקדש ... בראנזוויל ... אני ... בן-ציון בהר"ר משה ז"ל אייזענשטאדט נין ונכד לרבנו ... מרן מאיר
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