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Lot #    7028
Auction End Date    3/30/2004 1:50:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    She’elot u-Teshuvot min ha-Shamayim
Title (Hebrew)    שאלות ותשובות מן השמים
Author    R. Jacob ha-Levi
City    Koenigsberg
Publisher    Tuvia ha-Kohen Efrati and Joseph Bekker
Publication Date    [1858]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    16 ff., 170:105 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern black cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa from R. Jacob ha-Levi of Marvege and Corbeil. The title page states that the text was found in a manuscript by R. Jehiel Heller, that was copied from a manuscript sent from Jerusalem. This, the second edition, is printed with additions. On the verso of the title page is a warning from R. Jacob Zevi Mecklenburg against hasugas gevul. It is followed by a preface describing the author, and, from 3b, the responsa, seventy in all. The volume concludes with remarks from the publisher, notes and corrections, and, so that the final quire should not have blank pages (15b-16a) pearls from the Vilna Gaon on Zimzum. R. Jacob ha-Levi would seek answers from heaven about halakhah, and about what decision was to be accepted practice where the authorities differed "by means of seclusion, prayer, and uttering divine names and his questions were replied to in a dream" (Responsa Radbaz pt. 3, no. 532). In one responsum he writes: "O Supreme King, great, mighty, and revered God... command the holy angels charged with replying to questions in a dream to give a true and correct reply to the question I ask before Thy throne of Glory." The replies received were cited as halakhic rulings by the great deciders who came after him.

R. Jacob ha-Levi of Marvege and Corbeil (late 12th–13th century) was among the tosafist from Marvege, south central France. He is given the epithets hasid , kadosh, and mekubbal .

          
Paragraph 2    על-פי הוצאת [קעניגסבערג תרט"ו?], עם ההסכמה שבה. דף טו, ב-טז, א: "מרגליות ... מלשון ... הגר"א ז"ל ... בהבנת ענין הצמצום".
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; Margaliot (ed.), She'elot u-Teshuvot min ha-Shamayim; Vinograd, Koenigsberg 125, 126; CD-EPI 0136304
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica