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Lot #    4855
Auction End Date    6/10/2003 4:00:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Responsa
Title (Hebrew)    ùå'ú
Author    [Ms.] R. Amram b. Isaac Jacob Blum
City    Berettyoujfalu
Publication Date    1886
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [3] p., 342:212 mm., light staining.
          
Paragraph 1    Ink on paper, beautiful Ashkenazic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa concerning the ceremony for the deceased by a prominent Hungarian rabbi and scholar. R. Amram b. Isaac Jacob Blum (1834–1907) served as rabbi of the important communities of Samson, Almas, Mad, Huszt, and Berettyoujfalu, where he died. He studied under his father, who was head of the bet din in Nagykaroly, and later in the seminaries of Nagykaroly, and of R. Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer, rabbi of Pressburg. His sons relate that throughout his life he longed to stand at the threshold of the gates of Zion and Jerusalem. He decided to do so once he had married off his sons and daughters. However, he was never able to fulfill this desire. His work Beit She'arim (Orah Hayyim, 1909; Yoreh De'ah, 1941) is well-known in rabbinic circles and still of importance as a basic work of halakhah. The author formulated his own particular method of research, a method which went to the heart of each problem and explained it with clear reasoning. R. Blum founded a yeshivah which attracted many students.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
Responsa:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
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Kind of Judaica