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Lot #    25266
Auction End Date    12/8/2009 11:14:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefer haHinnukh
Title (Hebrew)    ספר החינוך
City    Brno
Publisher    Joseph Rossmann
Publication Date    1799
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [6], 144 ff., 216:185 mm., usual light age staining, wide margins. A good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    An anonymous work on the 613 precepts in the order of their appearance in Scripture, giving their reasons and their laws in detail. The various attempts to identify the author have proved unsuccessful; the most widely held view is that he was R. Aaron b. Joseph ha-Levi of Barcelona, the identification being based on an obscure allusion in the introduction: "A Jew of the house of Levi of Barcelona." From certain references in the book (precept 400) it has been concluded that the author was a pupil of R. Solomon b. Abraham Adret. The first edition (Venice, 1523) gives "Rabbi Aaron" as the author. Elsewhere the name of the author is given as Baruch (R. David ibn Zimra, Mezudat David, precept 206). The book was compiled at the end of the 13th century. Some deduced the date of its composition from the date 1257 mentioned in precept 326 with reference to the sabbatical years, but the passage in question is taken from the novellae of R. Solomon b. Abraham Adret to Avodah Zarah 9a.

The book is mainly based on the Sefer ha-Mitzvot and the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides, at times whole sections being copied verbatim (precepts 173, 485). The author used Ibn Hasdai's Hebrew translation of the Sefer ha-Mitzvot. He also used the works of other authors, including those of Alfasi and chiefly of Adret and Nahmanides. The uniqueness of the work lies in the section dealing with the explanation of the principles of the precepts, especially "the simple description" (precept 98). His explanations are based on common sense. His style and presentation are clear and understandable befitting its educational aim for youth and ordinary people. Many editions of the work have appeared. The best known is that containing the commentary Minhat Hinnukh of R. Joseph Babad. Other well-known authors to devote compositions to it include R. Judah Rosanes and R. Isaiah Pick.
          
Paragraph 2    ... [עם הגהות ר' יהודה רוזאניס]. הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י... יוסף הכהן שפירא נר"ו בן הרב מו"ה אברהם הכהן ראב"ד דק"ק טרישט זצלה"ה...

ספירת-דפים משובשת. דף [2,א]: הקדמת המביא הספר לבית הדפוס, ר' משה יוסף כהן שפירא. דף קמד, א: הוגה... ע"י התורני הרבני מו"ה פלק כהן דיין דקק רויסטיץ יע"א העוסק במלאכת הקודש פה ברין.

הסכמות: ר' מרדכי בנעט, ניקלשבורג, כב אדר-א תקנ"ט; ר' לוי ממ"ד [ממאטרסדורף], טרישט, יד מנחם-אב תקנ"ח, ועמו חתומים חברי בית-דין הצדק: ר' מאיר טורני ור' סענדר גענזל.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0154816: EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica