Keter rosh : manuscript.
כתר ראש.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Asher, ha-Kohen, 1797-1866, author.

Contributor:

Nathanzohn, Ḥayim ben Avraham, 1838-1904, annotator, scribe.

Yeshivat Ets Ḥayim de-Ṿolozhyn (Valozhyn, Belarus), associated name.

Kolel Eysheshoḳ (Eišiškės, Lithuania), associated name.

נאטאנזאהן, חיים בן אברהם.

ישיבת עץ חיים דוואלאזין.

כולל איישישאק.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Valozhyn (Belarus)--19th century--Religious life and customs.

Valozhyn (Belarus).

Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797--Religious life and customs.

Elijah ben Solomon.

Volozhiner, Ḥayyim ben Isaac, 1749-1821--Religious life and customs.

Volozhiner, Ḥayyim ben Isaac.

Rabbis--Lithuania--18th century--Biography.

Rabbis.

Rabbis--Lithuania--19th century--Biography.

Rabbis--Lithuania--Pūkeliai.

Rabbis--Lithuania--Eišiškės.

Rabbis--Belarus--Valozhyn.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Lithuania--Pūkeliai--19th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Osef Auctions (Jerusalem), July 2024.

Physical Description:

1 item (i + 11 leaves) : paper ; 17 x 11 cm

Production:

[Eišiškės, Lithuania? Valozhyn, Belarus?], [1855?-1865?]

[איישישאק? וואלאזין?], [1855?-1865?]

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Biography/History:

Ḥayim ben Avraham Nathanzohn was born at Pikelen (Pūkeliai, a village north of Panevėžys, Lithuania), and was later made rabbi in 1876; he studied in the Volozhiner Yeshiva, under YitsḥakVolozhiner (1780-1849) and later in the Kolel Eysheshok (in Eišiškės, Lithuania; it is likely that this manuscript was written at this time, in either Valozhyn or in Eišiškės, as "איש פיקעלין" suggests place of origin), and later assumed the rabbinate in Zhidik (Židikai, Lithuania), and was rabbi there until his death in 1904; he was the author of שפתי חן (Vilnius, 1900) and דברי חן (Piotrków Trybunalski, 1904); see his encyclopedia entry in Yahadut Lita, p. 340.

Summary:

Manuscript copy of the work referred to as Keter rosh (following most printed editions; Orḥot ḥayim Keter rosh, Jerusalem [1914] and the new edition, Jerusalem, Sivan 5777 (ed. M. Grodka); the work is of a copyist tradition of personal customs of Elijah ben Solomon (the Vilna Gaon) and his student Hayyim Volozhiner, and the central transcription of the text was likely by Asher Ashkenazi of Tykocin, beginning circa 1815). This manuscript follows the numbered paragraph system and here ranges from 1-109 and not corresponding to the text of the printed editions; for example, 109 in this manuscript is an interpretation Elijah ben Solomon related to his own dream upon dreaming of words in the Polish language (missing from the printed editions); 90 is an account of Hayyim Volozhiner's preparation of an inn for housing a Torah scroll (longer and with more detail than the printed edition); many of the paragraphs are missing or variated from the printed edition, and the copyist's statement suggests that this manuscript was copied from the master document (""את כל זה הגהתי וציינתי אני חיים בלא"אמור הרב מהור"ר אברהם זצ"ל נאטנזאהן איש פיקעלין). Written in an Eastern European cursive Hebrew script; folios of blue paper, disbound.

Notes:

Title from manuscript and printed editions of the work (and absent in this manuscript; an earlier version was called Sheʼiltot (שאלתות), and/or Tosefet Maʻaśeh rav (תוספת מעשה רב); portions published under title Hanhagot yesharot (הנהגות ישרות, edition by Mordekhai Gimpel Jaffe, rabbi of Ruzhany, in 1893) and Dinim ṿe-hanhagot (דינים והנהגות, by Avraham Katzenellenbogen); see the Jerusalem, 2017 edition, introduction.

Related Collections:

The remainder of Ḥayim ben Avraham Nathanzohn's archive sold at Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), auction 59 lot 278.

Cited as:

Keter rosh (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 748). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1473352239