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Lot #    4948
Auction End Date    6/25/2003 1:21:56 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tanya - Likutei Amurim
Title (Hebrew)    úđéŕ
Author    [Chabad] R. Shnuer Zalman of Liady
City    Zolkiew
Publisher    Mordechai Rubenstein
Publication Date    1799
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [3], 2-74 f., 8vo., 166:104 mm., light staining, few wormhole in final few f. A very good copy bound in modern full leather boards.
          
Paragraph 1    Very rare second edition, issued just three years after the very rare first edition.

Printed in Russia despite the Russian Czar's prohibition of 1794 on the printing of Chassidic and Kabbalah works. Several bibliographers contend that the Rubinstein press operated clandestinely and the printing of the censor's approval was for appearances only.

          
Detailed
Description		    This edition was printed with several major revisions: the name of work was changed to Tanya from Likutei Amurim; Author's name was not printed; several passages relating to gentiles were eliminated; and new approbations were added.
          
Paragraph 2    R. Shnuer Zalman of Liady (1745–1813), the founder of Chabad Chasidism 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 Chasidism from R. Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezhirech, leader of the Chassidic 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 chasidic 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.
          
Reference
Description		    Mundschein, Sifrei Admor Hazakan, p. 36-43, # 2
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica