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Lot #    9650
Auction End Date    3/22/2005 11:09:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Torat Ha'Adam
Title (Hebrew)    תורת האדם
Author    R. Moses b. Nahman (Ramban)
City    Venice
Publisher    Jaun D'Gara
Publication Date    1595
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Partial first edition. 108 ff., 194:140 mm., damp and age staining, tape repairs to several ff., bound in modern half leather boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Torat ha-Adam is a comprehensive and unique monograph on all the laws concerning death, starting with what is prohibited and permitted and what is a mitzvah as regards the sick and dying, and concluding with the laws of mourning. In point of fact this work is also in the nature of a "supplement" to Hilkhot ha-Rif, but in it Nahmanides, expatiating on the subject, included many scores of talmudic and tannaitic sources as also of Sephardi and Ashkenazi views, which he compared and discussed at length in the light of the sources. Very great importance was attached to the work by the leading codifiers, R. Jacob b. Asher incorporated it, in its actual order and form and with corresponding sections, in his Tur, as did R. Joseph Caro later in his Shulhan Arukh. Commentators on the Talmud set great store by it when dealing with the interpretation of the relevant sugyot in the Talmud. Of special interest on its own account is Sha'ar ha-Gemul, the 30th chapter of the work which, published separately some 30 years before the whole (Naples, 1490), deals with reward and punishment after death.
          
Paragraph 2    על דברת בני האדם ובית מועד לכל חי יורה ידין בשלשים שערים... ואחרון... שער הגמול בדין וחשבון הראוי לתת אחר המות...

דף [ב,א]: שיר בשבח הספר, מאת ר' יהודה [אריה] ממודינא. פותח: אנוש ציצת נובל. אוצר השירה והפיוט, א, עמ' 296, מס' 6507; ד, עמ' 268, מס' 6507. בשיר נזכר המביא לבית הדפוס "אליה". הוא ר' אליה ב"ר אליעזר אשכנזי. עיין: ש' ברנשטיין, דיואן לר' יהודה אריה ממודינה, פילדלפיה תרצ"ב, עמ' 67, הערה 9. עמ' אחרון: אגרת ששלח הרב ז"ל מירושלם... לבנו... נחמן... ה"אגרת" נדפסה בכל ההוצאות הבאות.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0150463; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica