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Lot #    5436
Auction End Date    8/12/2003 4:00:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Simlah Hadashah, Tevu’ot Shor, Bekhor Shor
Title (Hebrew)    בכור שור שמלה חדשה תבואות שור
Author    R. Alexander Sender Schor
City    Zolkiew
Publisher    Saul Meyerhoffer
Publication Date    1840
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2], 236 ff., quarto, 230:182 mm., small tear in upper title margin, light browning. A good copy bound in later boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    On the laws of ritual slaughter, shehitah and terefot, by R. Alexander Sender ben Ephraim Zalman Schor, (d. 1737). There is an attractive copper plate ([2a]) with three vignettes representing the three parts of the book, the first if a rabbinic figure, the second and third of pastoral scenes. The book is comprised of the text, Simlah Hadashah, in square letters, accompanied by an extensive commentary, Tevu’ot Shor, in rabbinic letters. These works are on M. Hullin and Shulhan Arukh Yoreh De’ah. This is followed, beginning on 203b, by an appendix entitled Bekhor Shor, which contains novellae on both the halakhah and aggadah to tractate Hullin and other tractates.

R. Alexander Sender Schor was probably born in Lvov, married the daughter of R. Mordecai b. Leibush of Zolkiew, president of the Council of Four Lands. For a time Schor was rabbi of Hovnov, Belz district, but in 1704 he resigned, not wishing to bear the responsibility of the rabbinate, and went to live in Zolkiew where he remained for the rest of his life, earning his living as a distiller. In 1733 Schor published Simlah Hadashah, with with Tevu’ot Shor. The Tevu'ot Shor attained great popularity. It has been republished at least 17 times and came to be regarded as the authoritative work on the subject. Schor generally assumes a stringent interpretation of the relevant laws. In practice a knowledge of Tevu'ot Shor was regarded as a prerequisite for a shohet before he was granted a kabbalah, a permit to practice shehitah. The name of the book became almost a concept: of an expert in the laws of shehitah it was said that “he is an expert in the Tevu'ot Shor.” Commentaries have been written on it, the most important being Levushei Serad of R. D. S. Eybeschuetz (Moghilev, 1812) and the Tikkunei ha-Zevah of Isaiah Borochowitz (1883).
          
Paragraph 2    תבואות שור ובכור שור ... ועתה העיר ה' את רוח נכדו ר' ישראל בערנשטיין מבראד ... בהמנוח ר' מרדכי ז"ל בהרב דמדינה [ר' אריה ליב ברנשטיין], להדפיסו (מוה' שמואל פינחס שטוליר ... הפליא לעשות בהגהתו ... וגם ... ר' שמשון יהודה מבית הלוי הגה ברוחו הדק היטב) ...

בשער: ת"ר, 1840. בשולי דף [2,ב]: 1841. קולופון (דף רלה, ב): ותשלם המלאכה ... ששה ימים לחודש טבת תר"א. בשער המילים "תבואות שור" ומקום הדפוס בדיו אדומה. ראינו שני טפסים נוספים שבהם נוסף אחרי השער דף מיוחד עם שלשה ציורים, ומאידך דף [2] שבטופס הראשון (הכולל ההסכמות והקדמת המחבר) נשמט. הציורים בעמ' א של הדף. העמ' השני חלק.

          
Reference
Description		    JE; Tchernowitz, Toledot ha-Posekim III pp. 258-60; Vinograd, Zolkiew 936; CD-EPI 0169158
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica