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Lot #    25823
Auction End Date    2/16/2010 10:09:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Divrei Kodesh
Title (Hebrew)    דברי קודש
Author    [Polemic - Only Ed.] R. Hayyim Eleazar Shapira
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Ha-Marriv
Publication Date    1933
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 16 pp., 238:157 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Booklet one (of six) of Anti-Agudah sermons by R. Hayyim Eleazar Shapira (1872–1937), rabbi of Munkacs from 1913 and hasidic zaddik. He succeeded in combining talmudic dialectics with the ability to reach halakhic decisions and a wide knowledge of Kabbalah and hasidic learning. He had many admirers and many opponents, and exercised great influence over the rabbis of Hungary even after Munkacs (Mukachevo) had passed to Czechoslovakia. Of lively temperament, he intervened in communal affairs beyond his community, and was even more adamant than his ancestors in opposing all innovation. An extremist opponent of Zionism, Mizrachi, and Agudat Israel, he regarded every organization engaged in the colonization of Erez Israel to be inspired by heresy and atheism. Redemption was to be a miraculous phenomenon, and any natural activity, political or colonizing, was liable to lead to a holocaust. He opposed the Balfour Declaration. On the other hand, he supported the "old yishuv" and was the president of the Kolel Munkacs in Jerusalem. In 1930 he visited Palestine, where he met and encouraged the anti-Zionist elements. His Hasidim viewed this journey as an apocalyptical act.

After the example of his father, he called for the maintenance of traditional education and for its financial support. He opposed the Hebrew schools which were established in eastern Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, and condemned the Hebrew secondary school of his town. His struggles were not only ideological, and he occasionally became involved in local disputes with rival zaddikim, waging a campaign of many years with the zaddik of Belz, Issachar Dov Roke'ah, who lived in Mukachevo from 1918 to 1921. His works include Minhat Elazar, responsa (1–4, 1902–30); Divrei Kodesh, sermons (1933); Hamishah Ma'amarot (1922); and Sefer Mashmi'a Yeshu'ah (1919, 1956).
          
Paragraph 2    דרושים ורשמי התעוררות... שנאמר(ו) בבית מדרש רבנו בסדר אמירת ההושענות ביום הושענה רבה... מפי... רבינו חיים אלעזר שפירא שליט"א הגאבדק"ק מונקאטש...

[א]: ביום הושענה רבה תרצ"ג... והוספנו עוד מחאה "מהיראים" מירושלים נגד התועים. ירושלים, דפוס "המערב", שנת ט'ו'ב'י'ם' ד'ב'ר'י' ק'ו'ד'ש' [תרצ"ג]. טז עמ'. "הודפס ע"י היראים דפה ... ירושלים". עמ' יא-יב: דברים שאמר המחבר "בימי הרחמים... בשנה הזאת", נכתבו על ידי משה גאלדשטיין, ר"ח חשון תרצ"ג, מונקאטש. עמ' יג-טז: "מחאה", נגד דברים בשבח הצהרת בלפור, שנתפרסמו בעתון "קול-ישראל" של אגודת-ישראל.

          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0171331; EJ
        
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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