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Lot #    25519
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 10:31:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Doresh Ziyyon
Title (Hebrew)    דורש ציון
Author    R. Simhah ben Joshua of Zalozhtsy
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Isaac Gashzinni
Publication Date    1887
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [4], 8, 60 pp. octavo 150:85 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Paragraph 1    The Haham Moses Gaster copy with his stamp on title.
          
Detailed
Description		    An account of the experience of R. Simhah ben Joshua of Zalozhtsy on his journey to Erez Israel. R. Simhah left Zalozhtsy in May 1764, later encountering R. Nahman of Horodenka and R. Mendel of Peremyshlyany, pupils of R. Israel ben Eliezer Ba’al Shem Tov, who were also traveling to Erez Israel. Sailing from Constantinople on September 15, they reached Jaffa on September 26 (the eve of Rosh Ha-Shanah). R. Simhah and the hasidic leaders continued their journey by ship to Acre. Arriving in Safed, they found only 40–50 Sephardi families there. Unable to earn a living as a scribe, Simhah returned after seven months to Europe. Arriving in Leghorn, Italy, he found a generous Jew, who welcomed him into his home. At his request, Simhah wrote a book containing the full story of his journey. R. Simhah entitled the work, Sippurei Erez ha-Galil, which name appears on the first text page, but his son-in-law, Solomon Dubno, published it under the title Ahavat Ziyyon. Solomon Dubno added extracts from the writings of other travelers, notably chapters on Jerusalem, Hebron, Nablus, and Egypt, which he took from the narrative of the Karaite Samuel b. David (1641–42). He also added excerpts from various non-Jewish works. This edition was brought to press under the title Doresh Ziyyon by Hayyim Eliezer Hausdorf.

R. Simhah ben Joshua of Zalozhtsy (1711–1768) was a Torah scribe. A preacher in the town of Zalozhtsy, near Brody, Poland, he was one of a group of ascetic Hasidim who had gathered around R. Nahman of Kossov, many of whose teachings he cites. He composed two works containing moral preaching in homiletic style and principles of conduct according to the kabbalist Isaac Luria: Lev Simhah (Zolkiew, 1757) and Neti’ah shel Simhah (ibid., 1763). Several times in his books, he implies that the redemption will take place in 1768. After returning to Poland, R. Simhah became a preacher in Brailow, where he remained until his death.
          
Paragraph 2    יכלכל מכתב מסע להרב ר' שמחה ז"ל מק"ק זאלאזיץ ... לארץ הקדושה בשנת התקכ"ד, 1763. עם הערות אחדות ודבר אל הקוראים. יוצא לאור מאת חיים אליעזר (בן לא"א מוה"ר עזריאל זעליג) הויזדארף ...

הוא ספר "אהבת ציון", [הוראדנא תק"ן], בשינויים קטנים. 8 עמ': הקדמת ר' חיים אליעזר הויזדארף: "הצגתי לפני הקוראים בדרך קצרה דרכי הנסיעה מארצות אויראפא היותר קרובה לאה"ק וכאשר נסיתי במסע הזאת בשנת תרמ"ה, 1884" (עמ' 3).

          
Reference
Description		    BE alef 743; Eisenstein, Otsar Ma’asot 237-51; EJ; Yaari Ma’asot 382-423; CD-EPI 0118864
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Travel
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica