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Yirʼat H. le-Ḥayim / ḳunṭresim mi-kitve ... Ḥayim ha-a.b.d. ṿe-r.m. di-ḳ.ḳ. Ṿolozin, asher yiḳare ba-shem Nefesh ha-ḥayim.
יראת ה׳ לחיים \ קונטרסים מכתבי חיים האב״ד ור״מ דק״ק וולאזין אשר יקרא בשם נפש החיים.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BJ1287.H33 N3 1837
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Volozhiner, Ḥayyim ben Isaac, 1749-1821, author.
- Volozhiner, Isaac ben Ḥayyim, approximately 1779-1849, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish ethics.
- Judaism--Essence, genius, nature.
- Judaism.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vinograd Collection
- Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research (donor) (Kislak Center copy)
- Bet ha-Midrash ha-Gadol, Kaunas, Lithuania (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 126 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Ṿe-atah nidpas paʻam shenit [second edition].
- ועתה נדפס פעם שנית
- Manufacture:
- Ṿilna : Menaḥem Naḥum ben Barukh, ṿe-Śimḥah Zimel ben Menḥem Naḥum, [5]597 [1837]
- ווילנא : מנחם נחום בן ברוך ושמחה זימל בן מנחם נחום, תקצ"ז
- Other Title:
- title of work : Nefesh ha-ḥayim
- title of work : נפש החיים
- Notes:
- Imprint additionally in Cyrillic charachters on title page; censored, Vilnius, April 1837, by Lev Borovsky -- title page verso. Approbations by two Vilnius rabbis, Abraham Abele ben Shelomoh and Sha'ul ben Yosef. Introduction by the son of the author, Yitzhak of Volozhin (also known as Isele Volozhiner).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gift of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town.
- Kislak Center copy bound in brown linen, circa 19th century; peeling; paper shelfmark.
- Kislak Center copy with manuscript waste bound in behind title page; the final line of a responsum (visible is "...תיעוד והוי כמאה עדים"), written in a 19th century Lithuanian-rabbinic cursive hand.
- Kislak Center copy formerly owned by the Bet ha-Midrash ha-Gadol of Kaunas, Lithuania -- inscriptions ("שייך לביהמ"ד הגדול דקאוונא").
- Cited in:
- Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew book), Vilna 392
- OCLC:
- 122856096
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