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Lot #    25692
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 11:57:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Luah Birkhat ha-Nehenin
Title (Hebrew)    לוח ברכת הנהנין
Author    [Habad] R. Shnuer Zalman of Liady
City    [Russia or Poland]
Publication Date    [1830]?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    20 ff., 176:103 mm., light age staining. A good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Laws of hand-washing before meals by R. Shnuer Zalman of Liady (1745–1813), the founder of Habad Hasidism. He was according to family traditions born in Liozna, Belorussia, on the 18th of Elul. After his marriage in 1760 he devoted himself to Torah study. Concluding that he knew "a little about learning, but nothing about prayer" in 1764 he decided to learn about Hasidism from R. Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezhirech, leader of the Hasidic movement. In Mezhirech he became one of the inner circle of the Maggid's pupils. Although he was one of the youngest pupils, the Maggid had a high opinion of him, and in 1770 delegated to him the task of composing a new and up-to-date Shulhan Arukh. R. Shnuer Zalman worked on this book for many years, but published only small parts of it. About one-third was printed posthumously (the rest had been destroyed by fire) and is known as the "Shulhan Arukh of the Rav" (1814). Though not a Hasidic work, it represents - as the Maggid had intended - a great halakhic achievement. It evidences R. Shnuer Zalman's superb Hebrew style, his ability to provide lucid explanation, and profundity without complexity. It became an authoritative halakhic source among observant Jews.
          
Paragraph 2    ... וגם דיני נטילת ידים ...

השער בראש דף א. "סדר נטילת ידים" הוקדם ל"לוח ברכת הנהנין", ו"אל עין הקורא" נדפס בין שניהם. על-פי זאלקווא תקס"א, עם נוסח השער של [קארעץ אחר תקס"א].

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0181157; Mundschein, Sifrei ha-Halaha p. 214-215; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Hasidic:    Checked
Halacha:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica