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Lot #    5775
Auction End Date    10/8/2003 1:24:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ir Shushan; Shut Har Tabor
Title (Hebrew)    עיר שושן ; שו'ת הר תבור
Author    [Polemic - Only Editions]
City    Pressburg
Publisher    Franz Edlen von Schmidt; Heinrich Sieber
Publication Date    1849: 1861
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Two independent works bound together. 64 (should say 84) ff.; 36 ff., 12 pp., octavo, 205:130 mm., light age staining. Very good copies bound in contemporary half-leather boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    The first work is Ir Shushan, homilies and response by R. Eliezer Lipman ha-Levi Stein (c. 1778–1851), a Hungarian talmudist and preacher. He was a correspondent on halakhah with R. Moses Sofer (Hatam Sofer), R. Meir Eisenstadt, and his teacher R. Judah Aszo. He served as av bet din of the community of Gy[ngy[s, and afterwards as rabbi and av bet din in Nagysz[ll[s (Vinogradov). At the age of 60, R. Stein decided to emigrate to Erez Israel, obtaining a letter of recommendation from Hatam Sofer to the philanthropists of Hungary. In the letter, Hatam Sofer describes Stein’s greatness as a Talmudist. During Stein's visits from town to town he went to Dunaszerdahely and was appointed to the then vacant office of rabbi and av bet din. Abandoning his previous plan, he remained there until his death. Among R. Stein’s other works are Hishanot ha-Bimah (1943), against placing the bimah in the synagogue in front of the ark, and Evel Moshe (1840), a eulogy on Moses Sofer.

The second work, Har Tabor, are the responsa of R. Israel David ben Mordecai Margolies Schlesinger Jaffe called David Sered (c. 1802-64), directed against innovation in synagogue practice introduced by the Reform movement in Hungary. Among the change criticized is the moving the bimah from the center of the synagogue to the front of the ark. At the end of the volume is a supplement in German Der Berg Tabor directed against Dr. W. A. Meisel, chief rabbi of Budapest. This supplement has its own title page. Har Tabor is appropriately named, as it recalls the biblical site where Barak routed the forces of Sisera (Judges 4:12-16). The volume is dated “Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel is by the sea, so shall he come” (Jeremiah 46:18).

R. Jaffe, a descendant of R. Mordecai Jaffe (Levush) and a student of the Hatam Sofer, was rabbi in Senice-Szenc in Slovakia, and after 1832, rabbi and av bet din of the Bazin-Pezinok community in the Bratislava (Pressburg) district. He was a leader in the fight against reform and is the author of responsa.
          
Paragraph 2    אשר טפחתיו וריביתיו (הק' אליעזר ליפמן חונה פה ק"ק סערדאהעל)...

דרושים. דף [ב]: "העתק מכתב סמיכה מהרב... ר' יצחק משה פערלס נ"י אב"ד ... באנהאט" שניתנה לחתן-המחבר, ר' אלעזר פירשט, גיססינג. דף עב,ב-[פד]: דברי-ידידות. חידושים במס' חולין ובמס' גיטין ששלח המחבר לבנו ר' מרדכי אריה נ"י אב"ד "דק"ק גוו"ד [גראסווארדיין]".

והוא עומד נגד הכרמל [Der Carmel]. בו מבואר דין בימה באמצע [בית הכנסת] בש"ס ופוסקים, וחומר האיסורים שעוברים ... ומעמידים אותה אצל ארון הקדש ... חברתי ישראל דוד מרגליות יפה הנקרא דוד סערעד ...

דף לב חלק. דף לג-לו: "הוספה חדשה". בסופה (דף לו,ב): "נעתרתי לבקשת ידידי ... מו"ה דוד ... ממשפחת הירש ... להיות שמו לזכרון עולם בספר הזה ...". ראינו טפסים שהקדשה זו נשמטה מהם. 12 עמ': גרמנית, עם שער מיוחד: Der Berg Taborw, oder das recept fuer Dr. W[olf] A[loys] Meisel Oberrabbiner in Pest, von David Schlesinger Obberrabbiner in Voesing ... תשובה לביקורת של ד"ר מייזל בעתון Der Carmel, שנה א-ב, 1861-1860, על ספרו של המחבר "מחולת המחנים". באותו ספר "בררתי הדין של בימה באמצע רק עפ"י חקירת השכל ולא בררתי את דברי הפוסקים" (דף י,ב), וכאן הוסיף המחבר גם את הצד ההלכתי.
          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Pressburg 77, 161; CD-EPI 0169363; 0180833
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
Polemics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica