Can you speculate on how much the Toras Hanazir is worth?
rrb | 06.24.08 - 8:59 am | #

>The auction includes R. S.R. Hirsch's copy of the Zohar, which is interesting in that R. Hirsch is not readily associated with Kabbalah.

See Rivka Horwitz, "On Kabbala and Myth in 19th Century Germany: Isaac Bernays," Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 59, (1993), pp. 137-183

>Another work of interest, especially in light of some recent controversies, is Tuv Ta'am by R. Aron Tzvi Friedman, discussing various laws of Shehitah. As noted by Goldman, "according to a family legend, the English translation of this work convinced President Ulysses S. Grant to eat only kosher meat."

Available online:

http://www.archive.org/details/ t...ndica00frieiala
S. | Homepage | 06.24.08 - 9:21 am | #

In item 274: if the description is correct, then Shlomo is 7-8 years old. Is he the actual chazzan for musaf or does it mean something else?
A Brill | 06.24.08 - 4:28 pm | #

My guess is that since it is a child's doodle, he imagines himself as chazzan for mussaph.
S. | Homepage | 06.24.08 - 4:46 pm | #

The first edition of R. Hutner's Torat ha-Nazir, that includes R. Kook's approbation (removed in some later versions).

Think anyone will outbid AF?
LkwdGuy | 06.25.08 - 9:57 am | #

I'm sure he already has it. Why would he buy this? So he can remove as many copies as possible from circulation?
S. | Homepage | 06.25.08 - 10:14 am | #

Precisely. I always heard that he bought up any first edition toras hanazir that he was able get his hands on.

Even wiki heard that and you didn't?

For example, when Rabbi Hutner first published his work the Toras HaNazir in Europe in the early 1930s he obtained and printed in it approbations (haskamos) from both Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski and Rabbi Kook. However when he republished the work again in the early 1970s, no approbation from Kook was included. Allegedly, it was later reprinted in the late 1970s without his permission by an Israeli publishing house, and only Rabbi Grodzinski's approbation was included. Rabbi Hutner was still alive at the time and he communicated his displeasure to the offending publisher. A high price was offered by A. F. [name redacted by poster] for any old edition with Rabbi Kook's original letter in it to remove any public awareness of Rabbi Hutner's official ties to Rabbi Kook.
LkwdGuy | 06.25.08 - 12:27 pm | #

Wow, he even got to this one:

http://www.hebrewbooks.org/14818

!
S. | Homepage | 06.25.08 - 12:41 pm | #

How did he manage that?

The Wikipedia entry doesn't make sense: If he published it in the early 70's without it, why was he offended that one was published later without it?
Nachum Lamm | 06.29.08 - 2:37 pm | #

My understanding is that when RYH himself republished it in the 1970's he removed both haskomos, RCOG's and RAYHK's. The unauthorized republishing included RCOG's haskoma only and that upset RYH.
lkwdguy | 07.01.08 - 9:46 am | #

the english tuv taam for sale lacks much of the original hebrew text.
Lion of Zion | Homepage | 07.03.08 - 11:59 am | #

That story about President Grant is wild. Why did he eat kosher meat?
KAJ Member | Homepage | 07.11.08 - 2:27 pm | #