Sefer Igeret ha-tsofeh ... : tsofeh u-mabiṭ ʻal yesode ha-rav Alfas ... kaʼasher nitsṭaṿenu me-geʼon ʻuzenu ra[ban] she[l] k[ol] b[ene] ha-g[olah] R. Elya me-Ṿilna ze.tsa.ṿe-ḳ.l. le-shoṭeṭ ba-yam aḥaraṿ... / Avraham be.a.mo.ṿe. mo.ha-r.r. Eliʻezer Lipman ma.m. u-mo.ts. de-ḳ.ḳ. Ṿilḳomir.
אגרת הצופה ... : צופה ומביט על יסודי הרב אלפס ... כאשר נצטווינו מגאון עוזנו רשכבה"ג ר' אלי מווילנא זצוק"ל לשוטט בים אחריו... \ אברהם במאדמ"ו מוהר"ר אליעזר ליפמן מ"מ ומ"ץ דק"ק ווילקאמיר.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lichtstein, Abraham ben Eliezer Lipman, active 18th century-19th century, author.

Contributor:

Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund.

Horoṿits, Aharon ha-Leṿi, printer.

Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797, associated name.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

הורוביץ, אהרן, הלוי.

אליהו בן שלמה זלמן.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103. Halakhot--Commentaries.

Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob.

Talmud Torah (Judaism).

PRO Kagan, Jacob (-1964) (bookplate) (Libra Katz Rare BM504 .L628 1806).

Physical Description:

34 leaves ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Byalisṭoḳ : Be-vet uve-defus ... Aharon ha-Leṿi Horoṿits, [5]566 [that is, 1805 or 1806]

ביאליסטאק : בבית ובדפוס ... אהרן הלוי הורוויץ, לפרט ו'ק'ס'ת' הסופר במתניו לפ"ק

Notes:

Titles of parts of the work: Igeret sheluḥah (preface and introduction) ; Igeret ha-tsofeh Mevo ha-Alfas (on methodology and study of Isaac Alfasi's Halakhot); Kanfe nesher (an excursus on kosher birds and their physical characteristics); and ʻAmude shamayim with commentary Arubot ha-shamayim (on medieval rabbinic scholarship and matters of Jewish thought).

The work on Alfasi was influenced by teachings of Elijah of Vilna, also known as the Gra -- title page.

Local Notes:

Libra Katz Rare BM504 .L628 1806; complete; final page torn; stained; bound in contemporary marbled boards (worn). Heavily annotated in margins with editorial work, possibly for a reprinting (the editor and annotator was named Yitsḥaḳ; leaf 26, verso: "הת' הפלגה בזה, כי יצחק אמר זה בלשון תמיהא..."); autograph of Shemuʼel Yitsḥaḳ Ha-kohen on title (additionally inscribed: "מן יום ט' מנ"א ת["ב?] ר"ח והן"); Polish inscriptions on both free-ends; library of Rabbi Jacob Kagan, יעקב דוד ב"ר משה הכהן (bookplate; rabbi in Staten Island, New York, died 1964).Purchased at Kestenbaum & Co, Auction 60 lot 3 (Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund).

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Bialystok 4

OCLC:

43488217

Online:

The Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund Home Page