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Lot #    25585
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 11:03:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Magen Avot
Title (Hebrew)    מגן אבות
Author    [First Ed. - Avot] R. Solomon Kluger
City    Piotrkow
Publisher    Feivel Blechatovski
Publication Date    1883
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 104 pp., 213:133 mm., nice margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Pirke Avot with commentary by R. Solomon b. Judah Aaron Kluger (1785–1869), talmudist and halakhist. R. Kluger became known as the Maggid of Brody and as Ma-Ha-RSHa-K (Morenu ha-Rav Shelomo Kluger). He received his early education from his father, the rabbi of Komarov, who died during R. Solomon's boyhood. At 13 he went to Zamosc where he studied under R. Mordecai Reuben and R. Jacob Kranz, the famous maggid of Dubno. He soon became known as an illui ("prodigy"). For a time he lived in Rava where he became a shopkeeper, but failed. He was then prevailed upon to accept the post of rabbi at Kolki; from there he went to Josefov and in 1820 to Brody, where he remained for about 50 years. R. Kluger had a great reputation which still endures. A prolific writer, he wrote hundreds of responsa. He is said to have written 375 books, the numerical equivalent of his name Solomon; the list of his known works comprises no less then 174, of which 15 were published during his life and 15 posthumously. R. Kluger was an extremist in his orthodoxy, vehemently opposing the maskilim, whose influence was already making itself felt in Brody, and fighting against every endeavor to change the least important of religious customs prevalent in Eastern Europe. He led the opposition to the use of machine-baked unleavened bread for Passover, but in this he was actuated mainly by social considerations, claiming that it would rob many poor people of a much needed source of income on Passover.
          
Paragraph 2    מהדורא קמא... באורים... על מסכת אבות [עם הפנים]... נובעים ממקור... ר' שלמה קליגר זצ"ל. נדפס בהשתדלות ובהוצאת... מו"ה אהרן מעלטציר נ"י מבארדיטשוב ומשנהו... האברך מו"ה יוסף ראזינבלאט נ"י מק"ק קרעמיניטץ... בשנת ו'י'א'ה'ב' ש'ל'מ'ה' ל'ע'ב'ד' ה'' כ'ל' י'מ'י' ח'י'ו'

הסכמה: ר' אברהם בנימין קליגר, בן המחבר. "סנסן אחד מחידושי תורה מספרי דברי חכמים", משלו, נדפס בראש הספר.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0151311; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Avot
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica