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Bidding Information
Lot #    33331
Auction End Date    3/13/2012 10:52:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sefer Yonah
Title (Hebrew)    ספר יונה
Author    [First Ed.] R. Elijah of Vilna (Vilna Gaon, Gra)
City    Warsaw
Publication Date    1837
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 6 ff., 4°, 210:170 mm., light age staining, nice margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Elijah ben Solomon Zalman of Vilna (Vilna Gaon, Gra, 1720-97) is a dominant figure in Jewish intellectual thought, his importance and prestige undiminished, as great today, if not greater, than in his own time. The Vilna Gaon’s extraordinary intelligence, expressed by his expertise in Torah at the age of three, outdistancing his tutors while a young child, his incredible proficiency over the entire expanse of the written and Oral Torah by nine, by which time he was already studying Kabbalah, accompanied by complete piety, are attested to by numerous reputable sources. More than seventy works, encompassing Bible, halakhah, Talmud, and Kabbalah, are attributed to the Vilna Gaon, among them a Torah commentary entitled Adderet Eliyahu published posthumously by his sons and son-in-law, and commentaries on other books of the Bible, also entitled Adderet Eliyahu, beginning with Joshua (Shklov, 1802). As noted above, this edition includes commentaries on thirteen books of the Bible.
          
Paragraph 2    הדפוס ע"י... מהו' יצחק בהמנוח מהו' מרדכי זצלל"ה מטיקטין. [1] דף: קדם-שער מקוצר: ספר יונה עם פירוש... רש"י ז"ל ועם ביאור מהגאון... מרנא ורבנא מוה' אליהו במו' שלמה זלמן זצ"ל מק"ק ווילנא יצ"ו... הפנים וכן הפירושים (כמעט בכל הספר), נדפסו עמוד-על-עמוד ושורה-על-שורה על-פי ווילנא תק"ס.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; JE; CD-EPI 0305201
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Other:    Yona
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica