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Horah Gever, R. Bezalel Ranschburg, Prague 1802

הורה גבר - Only Edition

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  • Lot Number 53030
  • Title (English) Horah Gever
  • Title (Hebrew) הורה גבר
  • Note Only Edition
  • Author R. Bezalel Ranschburg
  • City Prague
  • Publication Date 1802
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 2293335
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Physical Description

Only edition. [4], 38, [5] ff., folio, 335:200 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed, spine taped.

 

Detail Description

Only edition of this commentary on Horayot by R. Bezalel b. Joel Ranschburg (1760–1820), rabbinical author. In accordance with the imperial decree of 1787 he adopted the name "Daniel Rosenbaum" but was later called Ranschburg, the Yiddish pronunciation of the town Ronsperg, the German name for Pobezovice where he was born. He attended yeshivot at Schwabach, Fuerth, and Prague, where he was a pupil of R. Leib Fischels and also studied under R. Ezekiel Landau. He never held an official appointment and was supported by his wife and her father, but acted as rosh yeshivah in Prague. R. Ranschburg fought Reform (Resp. Hatam Sofer).

He devoted himself to commenting on those tractates of the Talmud on which there are few commentaries, such as his Horah Gever on Horayot (Prague, 1802) and Pithei Niddah (1957; published in Jerusalem 1928 under the title Hokhmat Bezalel). His Sedeh Zofim on R. Asher b. Jehiel's halakhot was appended to the Prague Talmud edition (1839–46). His Ma'aseh Rav (Prague, 1823) deals partly with tractate Nazir. Haggahot based on it are included in all subsequent editions of the Talmud. Many letters on halakhic subjects which he wrote to the censor Carolus Fischer (partly signed "Ilan Shoshan") are preserved in the Prague University Library (MGWJ, 62 (1918), 49–56).

     

Hebrew Description

והוא חיבור נאה למסכת הוריות כולה... לרבות בתלמוד ירושלמי ובדברי הרמב"ם בפירושו ובחיבורו... חברתיו ... בצלאל בלא"א... ר' יואל רנשבורג נ"י.

חלק מנוסח השער בדיו אדומה. קולופון: מו"ה בנעט נאחוד... יגע וטרח... על מלאכת הדפוס... להגיהו מן הטעיות. הסכמות: ר' יהודה ליב ב"ר מאיר ר' פישל (פישלס) בומסלא, פראג, כג שבט תקס"ב; ר' אלעזר ב"ר דוד פלעקלס, פראג, כב שבט תקס"ב; ר' אלעזר קאליר, קעלין, תקנ"ה; ר' מאיר ב"ר שמחה ווייל, בערלין, כו שבט תקס"ב.

 

Reference

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000165835; EJ