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Bidding Information
Lot #    24888
Auction End Date    10/27/2009 10:28:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Dereh Hayyim
Title (Hebrew)    דרך חיים ותוכחת מוסר השכל
Author    [Habad] R. Dov Ber Schneerson
City    [Russia or Poland]
Publication Date    [1828?]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [4], 136 ff., 8 vo., 184:110 mm., usual light age staining, nice margins, stamps and old hands. A very good copy bound in modern full leather over boards, tooled in blind.
          
Paragraph 1    Rare - CD-EPI records 1840 based on Habermann entry. Habermann speculates as to the place of printing stating that the Kopyst attribution on the title may yet be authentic. Vinograd posts the work as 1828. Mundschein (#52) in an unpublished manuscript on Israel Jaffa of Kopyst imprints explicitly states that the works was in all likelihood printed after 1837 by a forger who used old attributions.
          
Detailed
Description		    Hasidic discourse on liturgy by the son of the founder of the Habad Hasidim. R. Dov Ber Schneerson (1773–1827), the eldest son of R. Shneur Zalman. He became after his father's death in 1813 the leader of the majority of his father's Hasidim. He settled in the little town of Lubavich, which became the center of Habad. Under R. Dov Ber's leadership, the Habad approach was strengthened and deepened. His blend of intellect and mysticism is expressed in his clear and profound commentaries on his father's works. He was a prolific writer and wrote many works, the majority being explanations of diverse subjects, among them Kunteres ha-Hitpa'alut (1876; Tractate on Ecstasy, 1963), according to his systematized Habad Hasidism. At the same time he supported the idea of productivization in Jewish economy, and encouraged his Hasidim to take up manual occupations. He also persuaded all the Habad Hasidim in Erez Israel to settle in Hebron (1820) which became the Habad center there. R. Dov Baer was imprisoned for a time because of accusations against him by an informer, but was released on the 10th of Kislev, which is celebrated as a holiday among Habad Hasidim. He passed on in Nezhin in Ukraine.
          
Paragraph 2    בשער: בדפוס... ישראל במוה' יצחק יפה, בקאפוסט, בשנת א'זן שומע'ת תוכח'ת חי'י'ם' [תקע"ט], מן ההוצאות הקודמות. מהוצאה זו ואילך חולקו המאמרים לסעיפים.
          
Reference
Description		    Habermann, Shaarei Habad 29; CD-EPI 0181100; Vinograd, Kopyst 128
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica