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Lot #    9619
Auction End Date    3/22/2005 10:38:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ma’amar Torah min Ha-Shama’im
Title (Hebrew)    מאמר תורה מן השמים
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Samuel ben Shraga Feivel Rosenblum
City    Warsaw
Publisher    Ch. Kelter i Spolki
Publication Date    1864
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 16, 68, 14 pp., 197:123 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, taped and rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Proofs for the divine origin of the Torah by R. Samuel ben Shraga Feivel Rosenblum. In it are explained true and clear wonders, based on earlier works and the necessity that the Torah is a heavenly work, and the truth of our holy Torah given by the living God as a heritage to the Jewish people. The verso of the title page has the censor’s (B. Cymerman) permission to print. Below it is the disclaimer concerning confusing earlier heathens with contemporary gentiles. There is a second title page which states that the work is divided into two parts. The first explains many wondrous things from the perspective of intelligence, from other works and writers, on both the possibility and necessity that the Torah is a heavenly work. Among the sources employed are the works of earlier sages, Maimonides, the Kuzari of Judah ha-Levi, Hovot ha-Levavot of R. Bahya, the Ikkarim of R. Joseph Albo, Tiferet Yisrael from the Maharal of Prague, and many other works.

Part two deals with the wonders accompanying the giving of the Torah to Moses, his own testimony, and the commandments. Also included in this part are miraculous deeds about our earlier sages. There are approbations from R. Jacob Zevi ben Gameliel of Nikolsberg, R. ZeviHirsch Kalischer, and R. Solomon Plesner of Berlin followed by R. Rosenblum’s introduction and a preface. Part one is comprised of twelve chapters, part two of twenty seven chapters. Appended to the end of Ma’amar Torah min Ha-Shama’im is Emek Yehospat and Mehadora Basra.
          
Paragraph 2    ... ואמתת תורתנו הקדושה ... מאתי ... שמואל (באא"מ ... מוהר"ש פייבל זללה"ה) ראזענבלום מפולטוסק ... בבית ר' יצחק גאלדמאן ובהשגחתו.

עם שער שני מורחב: ספר מאמר תורה מן השמים; מתחלק ... לשני חלקים. החלוקה הראשונה ... יתבאר ... מפי ספרים ומפי סופרים. אפשריות והכרחית תורה מן השמים ... החלוקה השניה ... איך תורתנו ... שהיא מוצא פי ה' ... וכל מצותיה וחקותיה ומשפטיה... דברי אלהים חיים ... נקבצו בחוברת אחת ... דף סח, ב - יא,א: הספר עמק יהושפט. דף יא,ב - יד,ב: מהדורא בתרא. הסכמות: ר' יעקב צבי ב"ר גמליאל מעקלענבורג, קעניגסבערג, כ למב"י [ה אייר] תרכ"ד; ר' צבי הירש קאלישער, טהארן, ג דסליחות תרכ"ג; ר' שלמה פלעסנער, בערלין, לב למב"י [יז אייר] תרכ"ד.

          
Reference
Description		    BE tav 612; CD-EPI 0166949
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Philosophy
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica