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Lot #    25521
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 10:32:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Misped Gadol va-Khaved
Title (Hebrew)    מספד גדול וכבד
Author    R. Moses Judah Rabbinowitz
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Nathan Schriptgesser
Publication Date    1883
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 56 pp. octavo 176:105 mm., nice margins, usual age staining. A good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of this eulogy for R. Israel Salanter by R. Moses Judah ben Isaac Menahem Rabbinowitz. R. Israel Lipkin, known as Rav Yisroel Salanter, is renowned as the father of the Mussar movement and a famed Rosh yeshiva and Talmudist. The epithet Salanter was added to his name due since most of his schooling took place in Salant (now the Lithuanian town of Salantai), where he came under the influence of Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant. R. Salanter was born in Zagare, Lithuania on November 3, 1810, the son of Rabbi Zev Wolf, the Rabbi of that town and later Av Beth Din of Goldingen and Telz, and his wife Leah. As a boy, he studied with Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Braude of Salant. After his 1823 marriage to Esther Fega Eisenstein (died August 1871, Vilnius), Salanter settled in Salant, where he continued his studies under Rabbi Hirsch Broda and Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, himself a disciple of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin. Rabbi Zundel exerted a deep influence on the development of Rabbi Lipkin's character; he had stressed religious self-improvement (mussar), which R. Salanter developed into a complete method and popularized. He was a tremendous Torah scholar. Around 1842, R. Salanter was appointed rosh yeshiva of the Rabbi Meile yeshiva (Tomchai Torah) in Vilna. However, there was a minor scandal revolving around his appointment, and he willingly left the post to its previous inhabitant, moving instead to Zarechya, an exurb of Vilna. While there, he established a new yeshiva where he lectured for about three years. T R. Salanter’ suggestion, the religious ethical works of R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto and R. Solomon ibn Gabirol were reprinted and popularized in Vilna. In 1848, the Czarist government created the Vilna Rabbinical School and Teachers' Seminary. R. Salanter was identified as a candidate to teach at or run the school. However, he feared that the school would be used to produce rabbinical "puppets" of the government and refused the position. Fearing backlash, he left Vilna and moved to Kovno, Lithuania, where he established another yeshiva. He retained charge until 1857, when he left Lithuania and moved to Prussia to recover from depression. He remained in the house of philanthropists, the Hirsch brothers of Halberstadt, until his health improved, and then in 1861 began the publication of the Hebrew journal "Tevunah", devoted to rabbinical law and religious ethics. However, this was discontinued after three months as the journal failed to garner enough subscriptions to cover its costs. R. Salanter lived for periods in Memel, Konigsberg and Berlin. He devoted the last decades of his life to strengthening Orthodox Jewish life in Germany and Prussia. He also played a large role in thwarting an attempt to open a rabbinic seminary in Russia. Toward the end of his life R. Salanter was called to Paris to organize a community among the many Russian Jewish immigrants, and he remained there for two years. R. Salanter is also known as one of the first people to try to translate the Talmud into another language. However, he died before he could finish this immense project, Rabbi Lipkin died on Friday February 2 (25th Shevat) 1883 in Konigsberg, then part of Germany. For many years, the exact location of his grave was unknown. Following a lengthy investigation, in 2001 the grave was located in Konigsberg. R. Salanter was unique and his views were not always in the mainstream. When the Ukase, making military service obligatory, appeared, he wrote an appeal to the rabbis and community leaders urging them to keep lists of recruits, so as to leave no pretext for the contention that the Jews shirked such service. He was considered one of the most eminent Orthodox rabbis of the nineteenth century because of his broad Talmudic scholarship, and his deep piety.
          
Paragraph 2    על ... ר' ישראל סלאנטר זצוקללה"ה ועלה השמימה ... בשנת תרמ"ג ... מאתי המחבר ... מו"ה משה יהודה ראבינאוויץ בלאמ"ו ... ר' יצחק מנחם מענדיל שליט"א בהרב ... ר' שלמה אב"ד דעיר זיימל סמוך למחוז קורלאנדי ... איש פומפיאן מחוז פאניוועז ... אשר ישבתי ... בעיר שאוולה (וכעת ... מושבי בעיר מיטאווי) ...
          
Reference
Description		    BE mem 2631; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisroel_Salanter; CD-EPI 0166247
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
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Subject
Other:    Eulogy
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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