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Lot #    7722
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 10:42:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Homer ba-Kodesh
Title (Hebrew)    חומר בקודש
Author    [First Ed.] R. Zevi Hirsch ha-Levi Horowitz
City    Zholkva
Publication Date    1876
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    First edition. [8],48, [4] ff., 240:160 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary half cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa by R. Zevi Hirsch ben Phineas ha-Levi Horowitz. The title page, with a decorative border, gives the titles of several of R. Horowitz's other works and informs that Homer ba-Kodesh was brought to press by his kinsman, R. Hayyim ben Zevi Baruch Bendit (Meisels) with the annotations of the author's grandson, R. Zevi Hirsch Horowitz. There are five approbations, among them approbations from R. Hayyim Halberstam (Divrei Hayyim) and R. Josepn Saul Nathanson. There is an introduction from the author's grandson and from R. Hayyim Bendit, discourses a small number of parshiot and haftarot and then the responsa, of which there are twenty eight. The volume concludes with the brief annotations noted above and the names of the individuals who assisted in the publication of the work. Homer ba-Kodesh, although written between 1810 and 1815, was not published until 1876, this being the first edition.

R. Zevi Hirsch ben Phineas ha-Levi Horowitz (d. 1817), was born in Poland and was called to Frankfort by his father R. Phinehas ha-Levi Horowitz to help him in the conduct of his yeshivah. On the death of his father in 1805 he succeeded him as rabbi of Frankfort, serving there until his own death. Among his works are: Mahaneh Levi (Offenbach, 1801), consisting of halakhic novellae on various tractates, published together with the Sefer ha-Makneh of his father; at the end of the book there are novellae by his brother, Meir Jacob; Lahmei Todah (part 2 of Mahaneh Levi, 1816), containing halakhic and aggadic novellae to the Talmud as well as the sermons he preached between 1806 and 1815 on Shabbat Shuvah and Shabbat ha-Gadol (the Sabbaths before the Day of Atonement and before Passover). In these sermons contemporary problems are reflected. His censure and criticism touch upon the life of the Jews of Frankfot which, though once a "paragon of beauty, a Jewish metropolis, full of scholars and scribes," has faded and declined. The young people have grown accustomed to desecrating the Sabbath publicly (19c-d), the community makes light of the prohibition against drinking wine and milk of gentiles (35d), fixed times for study are neglected (11d), and theaters and concerts are frequented (ibid.) Two sermons (149a ff. and 159b) deal with the peace treaty of 1815. In the introduction to this book, Horowitz mentions his other works which have remained in manuscript. Horowitz prepared for publication his father's Panim Yafot (Ostrog, 1824). Some novellae by him are found at the end of his father's Hafla'ah (Offenbach, 1787) and in the Likkutei Zevi (Zolkiew, 1862) of R. Zevi Hirsch ha-Levi Horowitz.

          
Paragraph 2    (שו"ת) אשר חיבר הרב...מו"ה צבי הירש הלוי איש הורוויטץ זצ"ל בן הרב... מו"ה פנחס הלוי...הובא לב"ה ע"י ש"ב [שאר בשרו] הרב...מו"ה חיים נ"י במו"ה צבי ברוך בענדיט (מייזליש) זצ"ל עם ההגאות [!] מנכד המחבר הרב...מו"ה צבי הירש הורוויץ מיבראד זצ"ל (בהרב...מו"ה יעקב יהושע זצל"ה אבדד"ק זלאזיטץ בן המחבר)...

דף [5-3]: הקדמות מנכד המחבר ר' צבי הירש ומהמביא לבית הדפוס ר' חיים. דף [8-5]: הליקוטים [על פ' קדושים ועל הפטרת פ' בהעלותך] מאבי זקיני...מו"ה שמואל שמעלקי [ב"ר צבי הירש] הלוי איש הורוויץ (מניקלשפארג) מסר לי ש"ב הרב...מו"ה משה פנחס מליטוויסק. דף מח,ב-[1,א]: ש"ת [שאלת תשובה] מן הרב (יוסף שאול הלוי נאטהנזאן האב"ד) דק"ק לבוב להרב...מהר"ץ נ"י נכד המחבר. על דברי המחבר.

הסכמות: ר' חיים האלברשטאם, צאנז, ד תולדות תרל"ה; ר' יוסף שאול נאטנזאהן, לבוב, ד נצבים תרל"ד; ר' צבי הירש אורינ-שטיין מלבוב, רישא, כב מרחשוון תרל"ה; ר' שמעון ב"ר משה סופר, קראקא, ד חנוכה תרל"ה; ר' אברהם בנימין קליגער, כה תמוז תרל"ד.

          
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