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Lot #    24334
Auction End Date    8/11/2009 10:39:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Yedi’ot ha-Teva she-be-Talmud
Title (Hebrew)    ידיעות הטבע שבתלמוד
Author    R. Menahem Zevi ben Aryeh Taksin
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Ha-Tsefirah
Publication Date    1902
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 63 pp. octavo, 205:145 mm., usual age staining. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    First edition of this unusual work on the knowledge about the natural sciences to be found in the Talmud and midrashic works by R. Menahem Zevi ben Aryeh Taksin. The title page describes it as including all the sciences found in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, Midrash Rabba, Midrash Tanhuma, Yalkut Shimoni, Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, Pesikhta de-Rav Kahana, all arranged and ordered, divided into twenty-five chapters with annotations. R. Taksin was also the author of Ateret Zevi, Zevi Tiferet, Orah Yesharim on aggadah, Orah la-Zaddik, Likkutim on Tanakh, and Nahalat Zevi on the Haggadah. There is an introduction from R. Taksin, an approbation from R. Moses Nahum Yerushlimski, a table of contents, and the text. Yedi’ot ha-Teva she-be-Talmud is in two parts, the first Torat ha-Adam, consisting of six chapters, and Toldot Teva ba’alei ha-Hayyim with nineteen chapters. Among the subject matter in the first part are the formation of the fetus, maintaining health, and medicine. Te second part addresses such subjects as the nature of various life forms, large and small animals, insects, and birds, such things as ants, fleas and flies, and fish. There are chapters on plants, nature, measures and weights, and other related subjects.
          
Paragraph 2    כולל מכל המדעים הנמצאים בתלמוד בבלי ובתלמוד ירושלמי, במדרש רבה, במדרש תנחומא, בילקוט שמעוני, בפדר"א [בפרקי דרבי אליעזר] ובפסקתא דרב כהנא ... עם הערות, מאת ... מנחם צבי טאקסין בלא"א ... מו"ה אריה ז"ל ...

הסכמה: ר' משה נחום ירושלימסקי אבד"ק קיעלץ, אסטראלענקא, ה דברים תרס"ב.
          
Reference
Description		    BE yod 217; CD-EPI 0133755
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica