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Toldot Adam, R. Ezekiel Feivel ben Zeʼev Wolf, Warsaw 1857

תולדות אדם

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  • Lot Number 49274
  • Title (English) Toldot Adam
  • Title (Hebrew) תולדות אדם
  • Note Only Edition
  • Author R. Ezekiel Feivel ben Zeʼev Wolf
  • City Warsaw
  • Publisher Tsevi Yaʻaḳov Bamberg
  • Publication Date 1857
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 1528863
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Description

Physical Description:

Octavo, 83 ff., 170:85 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in later boards, rubbed.
     

Detailed Description:   

Popular detailed biography of R. Solomon Zalman of Volozhin, brother of R. Hayyim b. Isaac of Volozhin by R. Ezekiel Feivel ben Zeʼev Wolf. Toldot Adam contains details of R. Solomon's life and his teachings as well as stories current about him. It is a unique work for its period, reflecting the widening of the horizons of Hebrew literature in Lithuania at the end of the 18th century. R. Ezekiel sharply censures those rabbis who neglect study of the Scriptures as a result of their preoccupation with the Talmud and codes.

R. Ezekiel Feivel ben Zeʼev Wolf  (1755–1833), Lithuanian preacher, known as the "maggid of Deretschin." R. Ezekiel was born in Planaga, Lithuania. In his youth he was appointed preacher in his native town and, subsequently, in Deretschin. At the age of 19 he was an itinerant preacher in the Jewish communities of Galicia, Hungary, and Germany (where he remained for some time in Breslau). In Vilna he made the acquaintance of R. Elijah ben Solomon (the Gaon of Vilna) and through him, of R. Solomon Zalman of Volozhin. In 1811 Ezekiel accepted an invitation to become the "maggid" (official preacher) of Vilna, a post in which he served until his death. Other works by Ezekiel are Musar Haskel (Dyhernfurth, 1790), an exposition of Hilkhot De'ot and Teshuvah of Maimonides, and a commentary Be'urei Maharif (i.e., Morenu ha-Rav Ezekiel Feivel) on the Midrash Rabbah to Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus, which was published in Vilna together with the text in 1878.

 

Hebrew Description:

בו יסופר תולדת ... מו"ה [שלמה] זלמן [ב"ר יצחק] זצ"ל מק"ק ווילנא ... כולל למודים ... חכמה ומוסר ... וגם בו ילקוטו ... חדושי תורה הנובעים מלב הגאון ... הנ"ל. ונלוו עליהם הערות ... המחבר והמסדר, יחזקאל פייוויל באמ"ו מו"ה זאב ז"ל מק"ק פלאנגי מ"צ ומ"מ דק"ק דרעטשין במדינת ליטא ...

חלק א בלבד, בהשמטת "קונטרס אחרון".

 

References:

https://www.encyclopedia.com; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000135708