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Lot #
5111
Auction End Date
7/15/2003 11:04:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Rav Yeive
Title (Hebrew)
רב ייבי
Author
[Chassidim - Kabbalah] R. Jacob Joseph of Ostrog
City
Ostrog
Publication Date
1808
Collection Information
Independent Item
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Description Information
Physical
Description
Second edition on blue paper. [1], 129 f., folio, 343:200 mm., wide margins, light age annd damp staining, part of title in red ink, title strengthened in lower margin. A good copy bound in later half cloth boards.
Detailed
Description
Chassidic and kabbalistic discourses on the Pentateuch, Psalms, and Talmud, an early and important chassidic works. R. Jacob Joseph of Ostrog (Yeivi; 1738–1791), was the son of a maggid and succeeded his father in 1766, after the latter's death. Jacob Joseph's son testified that he highly esteemed the teachings of the disciples of Israel b. Eliezer Ba'al Shem Tov, the founder of modern Hasidism. Jacob, who lived in poverty and privation, had a deep sense of social morality. His sermons reflected the social upheaval troubling the Jews of Eastern Europe in the 18th century. Jacob Joseph attacked perversions of justice, informing, and bribery, and took to task community leaders and rabbis who gained their appointments through their relations with the authorities instead of through Torah learning. He taught that the poor are closest to God and worthy of attaining the mystic knowledge of the Torah, but the rich are distant from Him. There exists a kind of social-spiritual division in the world in which the learned profess the unity of God above and ensure the provision of abundance below, although personally gaining only a scanty livelihood; in contrast, the ignorant collect the abundance that pours down from Heaven. Despite this distinction, Jacob insisted on the principle of internal Jewish unity, since all the Jewish people are linked with each other. The zaddik's devotion to the Almighty draws all his brethren after him to holiness.
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... ומעלה עשו ... שהצגנו אחר כל סדרא של הרב המחבר ז"ל סדרא של אביו ז"ל ... וגם הוגה ... והתקנו כל הטעיות ... הובא לבית הדפוס על ידי ... ר' שמאי ישכר בהרבני ... ר' שמואל אשר נ"י ... עם הקדמת בן המחבר, ר' אליקים געץ.
Reference
Description
CD-EPI 0136266; Vinograd, Ostrog 61; EJ
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Russia-Poland:
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Subject
Hasidic:
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Kabbalah:
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Characteristic
Blue Paper:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
