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By Prime Judaica
Feb 22, 2021
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LOT 11:

HaTorah VHachochma Only Edition. Vilna 1913.
Compendium of various works authored by R. Zechariah ...

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HaTorah VHachochma Only Edition. Vilna 1913.
Compendium of various works authored by R. Zechariah Yeshayahu Yolles. Includes Talmudic novella, both Halachic and Agaddic, book reviews, poems and scientific theory, as well as the highly controversial work Dover Mesharim, first published in Lemberg 1831.
Dover Mesharim was published as a refutation of the Sefer Ohr Olam which included various Talmudic indexes attributed to R. Mordechai Yaffe (the Levush). R' Yolles competently disproved the possibility that these indices were written by the Levush, and ventures that the author was seemingly not particularly proficient in the Talmud. This sparked an outcry, with the Chasam Sofer writing a letter to R. Yolles. What followed was a heated correspondence, ending with an extremely sharp letter written by the Chasam Sofer, published at the end of this sefer (p. 548).
R' Zechariah Yeshayahu Yolles (1814-1852), was born into a rabbinical family and was regarded from a young age as an outstanding genius. He lived in Minsk where he authored various works and corresponded with the great Torah leaders of the period, as well as with various Jewish intellectuals “Maskilim”.
At the beginning of the book there appears a photograph of the author and a eulogy delivered by R. Dovid Tevel (author of Nachlas Dovid), on the author’s passing.

Size: 22 cm.
Pages: 14, 1, 5-548 pages
Condition: Fine condition.

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