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Dagul me-Revavah Kammah, R. Ezekiel Landau, Uzhgorod 1864

דגול מרבבה קמא - First Edition

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  • Lot Number 47600
  • Title (English) Dagul me-Revavah Kammah
  • Title (Hebrew) דגול מרבבה קמא
  • Note [First Ed.]
  • Author R. Ezekiel Landau
  • City Uzhgorod
  • Publisher Carl Jaeger
  • Publication Date 1864
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 1390935
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Physical Description:

First edition. 20 ff., quarto, 235:269 mm., light age staining, stamp on fly. A very good copy loose in contemporary boards, rubbed.

 

Detailed Description:   

R. Ezekiel b. Judah Landau (1713–1793), halakhic authority of the 18th century, known as the Noda bi-Yhudah, after one of his works (see below). Landau was born in Opatow, Poland, and received his talmudic education in Vladimir-Volinski and Brody. He was endowed with qualities which make him one of the most famous rabbis of the close of the classical Ashkenazi rabbinic era. He came from a wealthy and distinguished family tracing its descent back to Rashi. He had a commanding appearance and rare intellectual ability, was of strong character imbued with a love of truth and of his fellow men, and had considerable diplomatic skill. By nature he was an intellectual ascetic whose main interest lay in the study and teaching of Torah. In his time he was regarded as the prototype of the ideal Jew. At the age of 21 he was already dayyan of Brody, and at 30 rabbi of Yampol. From there he received a call in 1754 to become rabbi of Prague and the whole of Bohemia, one of the highest positions of that time. His famous proclamation of 1752, whose purpose was to put an end to the notorious Emden-Eybeschuetz controversy, which split the Jewish world into two, helped in no small measure in his obtaining this appointment. His tenure of the Prague rabbinate enabled Landau to give practical effect to his outstanding qualities. It afforded ample scope for his rabbinic and communal activity both in Prague itself and beyond. He acted as judge, teacher, and mentor of the community. In his capacity as rabbi of Bohemia, he represented the Jews before the Austrian government. In his great yeshivah, he taught hundreds of students, the cream of Jewish youth from Austria and surrounding countries.

 

Hebrew Description:

על ש"ע יורה דעה אשר עדיין לא בא בדפוס (העתק מגליונות יו"ד של)... ר' יחזקאל סג"ל לאנדא זצ"ל... העתקתי מכ"י (מהצדיק... ר' זאב וואלף נפטר בכפר וועקע... אחיו של... מוה' יחיאל מיכל מסאמעטער זי"ע)... ובקצת מקומות כתבתי איזה הערות...
אנכי... יששכר בער בר"י [ב"ר יעקב קאהן] דיין דק"ק אוהעל... בשנת ובנ'י, ישש'כ'ר' יוד'עי' בינ'ה

דף יד,ב-כ,א: שאלות ותשובות פלאי. בפנקס העתק הדגול מרבבה קמא... מצאתי... תשובות... בכ"י המעתיק [ר' זאב וואלף, הנזכר למעלה]... לא נודע ממי... נראה כי היה מגדולי הדור בימי הנו"ב [הנודע ביהודה, ר' יחזקאל לנדא].

הסכמות: ר' ירמי' ב"ר בנימין [לעוו], אוהעל, לא למב"י [טז אייר] תרכ"ד;
ר' מנחם ב"ר מאיר א"ש, אונגוואר, מב למב"י [כז אייר] תרכ"ד.

 

References:

EJ; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000142079