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Especially Rare: Collection of Sefarim by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. First Editions. German. Two Volumes
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Especially Rare: Collection of Sefarim by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. First Editions. German. Two Volumes
Volume 1:
* Sefer Chorev - the source of each and every mitzvah in the Torah, the reasons for the mitzvahs, and how the reason for each mitzvah can be found in all of its details, through the latest poskim, by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Altona, 1837. First edition.
This is the author's first work. The author completed writing this work in 1835, when he was only 27 years old, and while still serving as rabbi of Oldenburg. However, he could not find a Jewish publisher who was willing to take on this work considering the economic risk of printing such a large sefer, given the difficult financial condition of German Jewry. Rabbi Hirsch therefore turned to a non-Jewish printer in Altona who was unfamiliar with the Jewish market. However, this printer was also concerned about finances and requested that Rabbi Hirsch publish a small trial booklet first. Rabbi Hirsch published his famous work Iggerot Tzafun [Nineteen Letters] in Altona in 1836. Following the success of this work, the publisher agreed to print Chorev in 1837.
The purpose of this sefer was not to rule practical halachah, but to draw Jewish youth closer to Torah and Jewish tradition. However, over time, it became German Jewry's "Shulchan Aruch." The sefer was written in a very high level literary German. With several Hebrew quotations. Rabbi Hirsch subtitled his sefer 'an attempt to explain the Jewish people's Torah.' The sefer was translated into several languages over the years, and printed in many editions.
This first edition is extraordinarily rare.
Originally: 800, XVI pp, 20 cm. Lacking one title page at the beginning and the final leaf of the indices.
Fine condition. Beautiful handwritten dedication. Aging stains. Two detached leaves. Reinforcements in the margins of the title page. Original binding, partially detached, with chafing, and with the title of the book and the author's name imprinted on the spine.
Volume II:
* Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum : als Voranfrage wegen Herausgabe von "Versuchen" desselben Verfassers "über Israel und seine Pflichten" / herausgegeben von Ben Usiel - Iggerot Tzafun by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Altona, 1836. Nineteen Letters on Judaism: As an early trial by the author of On Israel and its Obligations/ edited by Ben Uziel. 111 p, vii pp. 20 cm.
* Cherev BaTziyun: oder, Briefe eines jüdischen Gelehrten und Rabbinen über das Werk: "[Horev] Versuche über Jissroels Pflichten in der Zerstreuung von S.R. Hirsch ..." : nebst einer Abhandlung über die Möglichkeit einer Abschaffung bestehender Gebräuche im Judenthum vom orthodoxen Standpunkte / herausgegeben durch M.S. Charbonah. Leipzig, 1839. XII, 43 pages, 20 cm.
* ste Mittheilungen aus Naphtali's Briefwechsel / herausgegeben von Ben Usiel [pseud.] Naphtuli Naphtali (in the Hebrew). Altona, 1838.
* Postscripta zu den unter dem Titel [Herev beziyyon] erschienenen Briefen eines jüdischen Gelehrten und Rabbinen über das Werk: [Horev] / von dem Verfasser des [Horev] Altona, 1840. 52 pp, 20 cm.
* Additional booklets in German. Work by Dr. Avraham Geier and more.
Fine condition. Stamp and notations. Aging stains. (Original?) binding - dismantled and lacking the spine.
