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Ayil Meshulash, R. Elijah of Vilna (Vilna Gaon, Gra), Vilna 1833
איל משולש - First Edition
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- Lot Number 50503
- Title (English) Ayil Meshulash
- Title (Hebrew) איל משולש
- Note First Edition
- Author R. Elijah ben Solomon Zalman of Vilna (Vilna Gaon, Gra)
- City Vilna
- Publisher דפוס מנחם מן ושמחה זימל בן מנחם נחום
- Publication Date 1833
- Estimated Price - Low 300
- Estimated Price - High 600
- Item # 1633877
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Description
Physical Description
First edition, [7], 31 ff., quarto, 207:170 mm., nice margins, use and age staining, worming, several tears touching letters, rounded edges, not bound.
Detail Description
Ayil Meshulash is a classic work on mathematics by R. Elijah ben Solomon Zalman of Vilna (Vilna Gaon, Gra, 1720-97). The Vilna Gaon, among his many accomplishments, was his mastery of kabbalistic literature. Approbations and introduction were omitted
in this edition.
R. Elijah ben Solomon Zalman of Vilna (Vilna Gaon, Gra) is a dominant figure in Jewish intellectual thought, his importance and prestige undiminished, as great today, if not greater, than in his own time. The Vilna Gaon’s extraordinary intelligence, expressed
by his expertise in Torah at the age of three, outdistancing his tutors while a young child, his incredible proficiency over the entire expanse of the written and Oral Torah by nine, by which time he was already studying Kabbalah, accompanied by complete piety,
are attested to by numerous reputable sources. More than seventy works, encompassing Bible, halakhah, Talmud, and Kabbalah, are attributed to the Vilna Gaon.
Hebrew Description
פרידברג רושם: תקצ"ה.
דף [4-7]: "דרך הפתח", הקדמה, מאת ר’ יעקב משה ב"ר אברהם, נכד הגר"א.
בעמוד האחרון: "לוח הבקעים", העתקה מספר עמודי השמים מאת ר’ ברוך [שיק] משקלוב, ברלין תקל"ז.
Reference
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000110348; EJ