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Passover sermon, Pesaḥ [5]679 [March 1937].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ouziel, Ben-Zion Meir Ḥai, 1880-1953.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Mishnah. Avot--Study and teaching.
- Mishnah.
- Passover sermons--Israel--Tel Aviv--20th century.
- Passover sermons.
- Jewish sermons, Hebrew--Israel--Tel Aviv--20th century.
- Jewish sermons, Hebrew.
- Parenting--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Parenting.
- Rabbis--Israel--Tel Aviv--20th century.
- Rabbis.
- Genre:
- speeches (compositions)
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Refaeli Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 21 (March 14, 2021) lot 315.
- Physical Description:
- 17 leaves : paper ; 265 x 212 (225 x 205) mm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pesaḥ [5]679 [March 1937].
- פסח תרצ"ז.
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew.
- Biography/History:
- Chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine, subsequently Israel, 1939-48/1948-53; formerly Hakham Bashi of Jaffa (1911-21), Chief Rabbi of Thessalonikē, and subsequently Tel Aviv 1923-39 (where this manuscript was written); his responsa called Mishpeṭe ʻUziʼel.
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript of a sermon, drafted in the hand of Ben-Zion Meir Ḥai Ouziel (Refaeli); dated Ḥol ha-moʻed Pesaḥ 5697 (it is likely this date was the sermon's delivery, and not the date of writing or composition). The verse initially read for predication, Malachi III:23-4, especially selecting "והשיב לב אבות על בנים"; the themes of the sermon are Jews as children of God (f. 1r-3r), paternal connection in Jewish history (f. 3r-9r), the rabbinate and connections to prophecy (specifically prophetic return to Zion at the end of days; f. 10r), and an analysis of parentage in Halakhah, with material about the study of Pirke Avot, or Chapters of the Fathers (f. 11r-14r); conclusion, an essay on customs of the prophets compared to patrilineal customs (מנהג נביאים ומנהג אבות; f. 15r-17r). Written in a semicursive 20th century Turkish Hebrew script; pages in various inks, cross-outs, unfilled parenthesis (citations), and later additions; paper commercial grid pages torn from a notebook.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-3r: Banim atem la-H' eloḳekhem
- 2. f.3r-10r: Avot u-banim
- 3. f.11r-14r: Mili de-avot
- 4. f.15r-17r: Minhag neviʼim u-minhag avot.
- 1. f.1r-3r: בנים אתם לה' אלוקיכם
- 2. f.3r-10r: אבות ובנים
- 3. f.11r-14r: מילי דאבות
- 4. f.15r-17r: מנהג נביאים ומנהג אבות.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.
- Cited as:
- UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 593.
- OCLC:
- 1350541330
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