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Lot #    25694
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 12:07:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shev Ya'acov
Title (Hebrew)    שב יעקב עם חתימות חשובים
Author    [First Ed.] R. Jacob b. Benjamin Poppers
City    Frankfort a. Main
Publication Date    1742
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 109; [1] 139 ff., 300:200 mm., wide margins, usual age and damp staining, old important hands on title. A very good copy bound in contemporary leather, rubbed, recent spine.
          
Paragraph 1    The copy of, with their inscriptions on title:

R. Saul Lowenstam (1717-1790) was born in Rzeszow, the son of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Lowenstam. He was Chief Rabbi of Dubno, Poland and succeeded his father in Amsterdam. His work, Binyan Ariel (this lot), made him renowned throughout the Jewish world. He was widely known as the Binyan Ariel or as Rabbi Saul Amsterdammer.

R. Abraham b. Benjamin Poppers Katz, younger brother of the author and rabbi of Tiplitz, his approbation to the work appears on title verso.
          
Detailed
Description		    Important responsa by R. Jacob b. Benjamin Poppers ha-Kohen (c.1668-1740), was born in Prague, studied under his father and in various yeshivot. He was subsequently appointed rabbi of Coblenz and of Trier, in the Rhineland. He declined an invitation to Halberstadt in 1718 but accepted the rabbinate of Frankfort where he headed a large yeshivah. His disciples included R. Jacob Berlin, R. Joseph Steinhardt, and R. Joseph Wassertrilling. R. Poppers corresponded with the great scholars of his time on halakhic and contemporary problems. He was among those who imposed a ban on R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto in 1725 for teaching Kabbalah and on suspicion that he adhered to the Shabbatean doctrine. Compelled to leave Italy, Luzzatto arrived in Frankfort, where he was summoned before the bet din of Poppers and, after much discussion, was obliged again to promise not to teach Kabbalah nor to engage in its study until he was 40 years old.
          
Paragraph 2    חלק א: [אורח חיים ויורה דעה]. [1], קט דף. חלק א: דף קט,ב: דברי המגיה, ר' משה ב"ר שלמה מנהיים מק"ק ווירמש. חלק ב: שו"ת השייכי' לטור אה"ע וטח"מ. [1], קלט דף.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0157250; Vinograd, Frankfurt am Main 497; Friedberg 250; EJ
        
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18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
Other:    Bohemia
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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