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Mekor Hayyim; Ya'arot Devash Part I-II, Zolkiev; Sudilkov 1837; 1834

מקור חיים; יערות דבש

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  • Lot Number 49228
  • Title (English) Mekor Hayyim; Ya'arot Devash Part I-II
  • Title (Hebrew) מקור חיים; יערות דבש
  • Author R. Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa Lorbeerbaum; R. Jonathan Eibeschutz
  • City Zolkiev; Sudilkov
  • Publisher דפוס שאול דוב מאיר האפער; דפוס יצחק בן אליעזר מדפיס
  • Publication Date 1837; 1834
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 1525689
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Physical Description

{1], 46, 15; [1], 89; [1], 30, 35-101 ff. quarto 220:160 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining. A good copy bound in later half cloth over boards, rubbed.
       

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Mekor Hayyim - Important halakhic work on the laws of Passover by R. Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa Lorbeerbaum. The title page is not dated nor does it give the name of the publisher and the place of printing. The first edition is known, however, to have been printed in Frankfort on the Oder in 1813 and this edition is clearly an early nineteenth century imprint, certainly prior to 1832, as the author is referred to as among the living on the verso of the title page. That page describes Torat Gittin as novellae and explanations of hilkhot Gittin and novellae on tractate Gittin written by Jacob ben Moses av bet din and rosh Mesivta in Lissa. It then enumerates several of R. Lorbeerbaum’s other works. At the bottom of the title page in a smaller font it states that wherever an inverted letter appears in brackets it refers to a halakhot not previously noted but inserted by the author. There is a brief introduction from Lorbeerbaum and then the text. Torat Gittin is comprised of the Shulhan Arukh in the center of the page accompanied by R. Lorbeerbaum’s novella in the inner margin and his explanation of the halakhah in the outer margin. R. Lorbeerbaum halakhic explanation, without text continues from 24b-39b and the volumen conldes with Seder ha-Get (39b-40b) and novellae on tractate Gittin (40b-66b).

R. Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa Lorbeerbaum, (c. 1760–1832), Polish rabbi and halakhist. His father, the rabbi of Zborow, died before R. Lorbeerbaum was born and his relative, R. Joseph Te'omim, brought him up. After his marriage he settled in Stanislav and engaged in business, but devoted most of his time to study. He frequently attended the lectures of Meshullam Igra. When after a few years his business failed, he accepted the rabbinate of Monasterzyska where he founded a yeshivah. He was later appointed rabbi of Kalisz where he wrote most of his books and with exceptional humility published anonymously his work on parts of Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah: Havvat Da'at, a name by which he himself became known in scholarly circles when his authorship came to light. This work was accepted in the rabbinic world as a compendium of practical halakhah, and won him the reputation of an outstanding posek. In 1809 he was invited to become rabbi of Lissa, long a center of Torah in Poland. R. Lorbeerbaum enlarged the yeshivah, to which hundreds of students streamed, among them many who later became great scholars and pioneers of the Hibbat Zion movement such as Elijah Gutmacher, Zevi Hirsch Kalischer, and Shraga Feivel Danziger. Many of Jacob's contemporaries turned to him with their problems. During his time the war between the reformers and the rabbis flared up, and Lorbeerbaum, together with R. Akiva Eger and R. Moses Sofer, unleashed a vehement attack against the maskilim and the reformers. In Lissa, however, as in other towns of Great Poland that came under Prussian rule after the partition of Poland, the influence of the Berlin reformers grew continually stronger. The schism between Lorbeerbaum and a large section of the community eventually became so great that in 1822 he decided to leave Lissa and return to Kalisz. There he devoted his time to study, rejecting all offers of rabbinic posts from large and ancient communities such as Lublin. In 1830 he quarreled with a powerful member of the community who denounced him to the government, compelling him to leave Kalisz. On the way to Budapest, where he had been invited to become av bet din, he passed through the regional town of Stryj and was persuaded to remain there. R. Lorbeerbaum’s other published works are Havvat Da'at (Lemberg, 1799); Ma'aseh Nissim (Zolkiew, 1801), on the Passover Haggadah; Mekor Hayyim (ibid., 1807), novellae and expositions of the laws of Passover in the Shulhan Arukh together with the glosses of David b. Samuel ha-Levi and Abraham Abele Gombiner on the Orah Hayyim and novellae to tractate Keritot; Netivot ha-Mishpat (ibid., 1809–16), on Hoshen Mishpat; Beit Ya'akov (Hrubieszow, 1823), expositions on Even ha-Ezer; Kehillat Ya'akov (1831), on Even ha-Ezer and some sections of Orah Hayyim; Derekh ha-Hayyim, an anthology of liturgical laws for the whole year, first published with the prayer book (1828) and then separately (1860 or 1870); Nahalat Ya'akov (1849), expositions of the Pentateuch; Emet le-Ya'akov (1865), expositions of talmudic aggadot; Imrei Yosher, commentaries on the five megillot, each published at a different place and time; his ethical will (1875) and Millei de-Aggadeta (1904), sermons and response.

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Ya'arot Devash Part I-II - Homilies to the Pentateuch by R. Jonathan b. Nathan Nata Eibeschutz (1690/95–1764), talmudist and kabbalist, a child prodigy, studied in Poland, Moravia, and Prague. In his youth, after the death of his father, he studied in Prossnitz under R. Meir Eisenstadt and R. Eliezer ha-Levi Ettinger, his uncle, and in Vienna under R. Samson Wertheimer. He married the daughter of R. Isaac Spira, the av bet din of Bunzlau. After traveling for some time he settled in Prague in 1715, and in time became head of the yeshivah and a famous preacher. After the death of R. David Oppenheim (1736), he was appointed dayyan of Prague. Elected rabbi of Metz in 1741, he subsequently became rabbi of the “Three Communities,” Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek (1750). Both in Metz and in Altona he had many disciples and was considered a great preacher.

His position in the Three Communities, however, was undermined when the dispute broke out concerning his suspected leanings toward Shabbateanism. This controversy accompanied R. Eybeschuetz throughout his life, and the quarrel had repercussions in every community from Holland to Poland. His main opponent was R. Jacob Emden, also a famous talmudist and a potential rival in the candidature to the rabbinate of the Three Communities. The quarrel developed into a great public dispute which divided the rabbis of the day. While most of the German rabbis opposed R. Eybeschuetz, his support came from the rabbis of Poland and Moravia. A fruitless attempt at mediation was made by R. Ezekiel Landau, rabbi of Prague. Most of R. Eybeschuetz' own community was loyal to him and confidently accepted his refutation of the charges made by his opponent, but dissension reached such a pitch that both sides appealed to the authorities in Hamburg and the government of Denmark for a judicial ruling. The king favored R. Eybeschuetz and ordered new elections, which resulted in his reappointment. After his reelection as rabbi of the Three Communities, some rabbis of Frankfort, Amsterdam, and Metz challenged him to appear before them to reply to the suspicions raised against him. R. Eybeschuetz refused, and when the matter was brought before the Council of the Four Lands in 1753, the council issued a ruling in his favor. In 1760 the quarrel broke out once more when some Shabbatean elements were discovered among the students of R. Eybeschuetz' yeshiva. At the same time his younger son, Wolf, presented himself as a Shabbatean prophet, with the result that the yeshiva was closed.

 

Hebrew  Description

מקור חיים - והוא חידושים וביאורים על הלכות פסח [אורח חיים, סי’ תכט-תסז, עם הפנים] וחידושי מסכת כריתות (מאבי המחבר), חיברו הרב... המחבר ס’ חוות דעת [ר’ יעקב לארבערבוים]. ולתועלת התלמידים נדפסו הגהות (וקצת ביאורים)... בטורי זהב [לר’ דוד ב"ר שמואל הלוי, על אורח חיים] ומגן אברהם [לר’ אברהם אבלי גומבינר]...

יערות דבש - תוכחת מוסר מה שדרש ברבי' ... דודי הגאון ... מה"ו יהונתן ז"ל בק"ק מיץ ... כשהי' שם לרב ... חלק א-ב.

 


References:

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 # 000162162; 000120488; BE tav 1013; EJ