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Lot #    24879
Auction End Date    10/27/2009 10:23:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Mei ha-Shillo’ah
Title (Hebrew)    מי השלוח
Author    [First Ed.] R. Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica
City    Vienna
Publisher    Adelbert della Torda
Publication Date    1860
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 66, 26 ff., 194:154 mm., margins trimmed, light age staining, lacking final. A good copy bound in modern full leather over boards, tooled in blind and gilt.
          
Detailed
Description		    Hasidic commentary on the Torah by R. Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica. The work is based on R. Mordecai Joseph Leiner’s discourses, collected by his children and grandchildren. It was printed in two parts; this first part on the entire Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim, novellae on tractates was printed in Vienna in 1860: The second part, is completed with additional insights on the parasha and novellae was printed in Lublin 1922. There is an introduction from the author’s grandson, who bears his name. The text is in two columns in rabbinic type, excepting headers and initial words.

R. Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica (d. 1854) was founder of the Izbica/Radzyn dynasty. He was a student of R. Simhah Bunim of Przysucha (Peshiskhan) and R. Menahem Mendel Morgenstern of Kotsk, and was considered the latter’s outstanding student. After the famous “Friday night incident” in 1839, which remains obscure, he left Kotsk, finally settling in Izbica, where he resided for thirteen years. The decisive year of his life was 1840, prophesied as the year of redemption by many Hasidim (the Tarnikim). According to his grandson, R. Gershon Henikh, “he [R. Mordecai Joseph] remained hidden in the Cave of Adullam for 13 years studying the Torah in secret... until the time when the word of God came” (Mei ha-Shillo’ah). He is considered by many the most original thinker of Hasidism. He opposed the isolation of the Kotsker, emphasizing that the zaddik was a spiritual guide rather than a miracle worker, and believed in informed faith, that God should be served with intelligence as well as devotion.
          
Paragraph 2    נאסף ונלקט מאשר נזכר ממאמרי... הרב... ר' מרדכי יוסף זצללה"ה מאיזבצא... ואחרי האספו... נלקט...

חלק [א]: [על התורה, ליקוטים לנביאים ולכתובים וליקוטי הש"ס]. הובא לבית הדפוס על ידי נכדו (גרשון חנוך הענוך) הוא בן הרב הקדוש [ר' יעקב] מאיזבצא. ווין, דפוס אדאלבערט דעללא טאררע, לפרט ד'ב'ר'י' ק'ד'ש' [תר"ך]. סו, כו, [1] דף. חלק ב: [על התורה, נביאים וכתובים וליקוטים]. לובלין, דפוס נחמה הערשענהארן ושלמה שמעון שטרייזבערגער, תרפ"ב. עו דף. דף ב-ג: הקדמת ר' מרדכי יוסף ב"ר יעקב ליינער, נכד המחבר, שסידר את הספר. חלק ב: דף עג-עו: הוספות לחלק [א].

          
Reference
Description		    BE mem 1600; Rabinowicz, Encyclopedia of Hasidism pp. 282-83; EJ; CD-EPI 0144374
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
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Hasidic:    Checked
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
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