Peri Chaim on Avot, R. Abraham Chaim b.Gedaliah of Zloczow, Lvov 1873
פרי חיים על מסכת אבות - First Edition - Hasidic
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- Title (English) Peri Chaim on Avot
- Title (Hebrew) פרי חיים על מסכת אבות
- Note First Edition - Hasidic
- Author R. Abraham Chaim b.Gedaliah of Zloczow
- City Lvov
- Publisher דפוס אברהם ניסן זיס סג"ל
- Publication Date 1873
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- Item # 2285783
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Physical Description:
First edition, [2], 54ff., quarto 238:175 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
Detailed Description:
R. Abraham Chaim b.Gedaliah of Zloczow (1750–1816), Galician Admor. R. Abraham studied under his father R. Gedaliah b. Benjamin Wolf, who was av bet din in Zloczow. He was a disciple of R. Dov Baer the "Maggid of Mezhirech," R. Jacob Joseph of Polonnoye, and ZR. Jehiel Michel of Zloczow. He was also a pupil of the two brothers: R. Samuel Shmelka Horowitz of Nikolsburg and R. Phinehas Levi Horowitz, his first father-in-law. When R. Issachar Baer (his father-in-law by his second marriage) immigrated to Ereẓ Israel, R. Abraham Ḥayyim succeeded him as av bet din of Zloczow. He was a brilliant exegete and facile writer, possessed of an easy, graceful style, and is referred to as a "learned exponent of ḥasidic thought." His Oraḥ Ḥayyim (Zolkiew, 1817) on the Bible is a treasury of thoughts and sayings of the ḥasidic rabbis. It was published posthumously by his stepson, R. Joseph Azriel b. Ḥayyim Aryeh Leibush, with an introduction by R. Ephraim Zalman Margolioth, who praises his piety and charity and gives biographical details. R. Abraham Ḥayyim wrote a commentary on Pirkei Avot, Peri Ḥayyim (1873), and a commentary on the Haggadah, under the same name (1873).
Hebrew Description:
דף [2, ב]: הקדמת המביא לבית הדפוס.
Reference:
A. Walden, Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash, 2 (1864), 4a, no. 73; S. Buber, Kiryah Nisgavah (1903), 20–21, s.v. Gedaliah; Y. Raphael, Sefer ha-Ḥasidut (1947), 67
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 # 000151279