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Lot #    6010
Auction End Date    11/18/2003 10:59:10 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shulchan Arukah ha-Rav
Title (Hebrew)    שלחן ערוך הרב חו'מ
Author    [Chabad - Presentation Copy]
City    [Koenigsburg]
Publication Date    1858
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Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 25, [1], 26-27, 27-65 ff., 8 vo., 204:122 mm., usual age staining, old hand on fly. A very good copy loose in the original boards. Only Chosen Mishpat was published.
          
Paragraph 1    Presentation copy by the Rabbi of Chabad in Hebron, R. Dov Ber Slonim to the groom Dover Simnunovitz.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745–1813), the founder of Chabad Chasidism. He 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. Shneur 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. Shneur Zalman's superb Hebrew style, his ability to provide lucid explanation, and profundity without complexity. It became an authoritative halakhic source among observant Jews.
          
Paragraph 2    חושן משפט מהלכות הצריכות מלוקטות מטח"מ [מטור חושן משפט] ... ועלה כולו קמשונים בדפוסים שונים, ועתה שמנו עין עיונינו עליו להדפיסו באותיות חדשות ויפות ובניר טוב ולבן ובדפוס משובח ובהגהה מדויקת ...

בשנת לי' ק'וו רשעים לאבדני עדותיך את'ב'ו'נ'ן'

          
Reference
Description		    Mundschein, Sifrei Ha'Halacha p. 96, # 11; CD-EPI 0181052
        
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Subject
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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