Friday, February 13, 2009

כך דרכה של תורה

Hebrewbooks.org has added some important new Seforim. This is one of the most important. I will try to update with some more info later.

They also have the original Leipzig edition of Zechariah Frankel's Darkhei HaMishna, although it is best to see the Warsaw edition as well as there are important additions there.

Also of interest is a response by Mordechai Weissman Chajes to Chaim Zelig Slominsky, containing important treatise re: the dateline. Mondshine's biography of Kamehler is also worth examining.

These are only some of the important Seforim added too Hebrewbooks.org. I will try to update this post significantly later today.
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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    The Warsaw edition also have the additional התנצלות המחבר at the end which addresses some of the attacks on his religious integrity.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    Darka shel Torah is also found on google books. It look sto be a much cleaner scan (though page order is backwards).

    http://books.google.com/books?id=BCwQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A9&source=bl&ots=e8IlI7h-tb&sig=oUqxmrlhLcJFU9_sVYCls3uVuDA&hl=en&ei=ns2VSbGhJpj8MtHkqIQM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA2,M1

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM

    The HebrewBooks.org guys are incredible! I feel like a kid in a candy store.

    Wolf's post inspired me to peruse the list for myself; I noticed the following valuable and not that readily available works:

    R. Leon Modena's ארי נוהם
    R. Y. Y. Algazi's ארעא דרבנן
    R. M. Narboni's ביאור לספר מורה נבוכים
    R. Y. Bedarsi's בחינת עולם (and several other editions of it, too)
    R. A. Figo's בינה לעתים
    R. Y. Bedarsi's בקשת הלמדין
    R. Z. H. Kalisher's דרישת ציון
    R. Y. Canpanton's דרכי הגמרא

    I know that all these are available in good libraries, but still ...

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  4. Mississippi Fred MacDowellFebruary 13, 2009 at 4:16 PM

    >I know that all these are available in good libraries, but still ...

    And unless you work in one, are still in school with such a good library, or live five minutes from one, what will that do for you?

    I love libraries, don't get me wrong, but hbooks is something special.

    Hopefully there won't be a backlash against the haskalah works.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2009 at 7:18 PM

    As someone who is in one of the greatest Judaica libraries in the world a few days a week, I can testify that books are not always available when you want to use them and sometimes the hassle of actually getting to look at a book is no small matter.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2009 at 8:36 PM

    > Hopefully there won't be a backlash against the haskalah works.

    Or against ארי נוהם ...

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2009 at 8:41 PM

    More discussion at Hagahot.

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  8. Wolf2191February 14, 2009 at 10:16 PM

    Prof. Marc said in his lat lecture tht they might split the database between Haskalah and regular - but its always wise to download stuff just in case.

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2009 at 9:13 AM

    And since when does he work for HebrewBooks.org?

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM

    I'm surprised that none of the maskilim from asra kadisha hodain noted that mordechai plongian's sefer Ohr Boker is on the list. Plongianis the author of the Miluim on Yoreh Deah.

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  11. Wolf2191February 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM

    He sad he heard from the donor of hebrewbooks.

    I found some really cool letters from Plungian (who also wrote the bio of Menassah M Ilya that I discuss in a different post). Stay tune!

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