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Avodat Levi, R. Jacob Isaac Ruderman, Kedainiai 1930

עבודת לוי - Only Edition - Autographed Copy

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  • Lot Number 51896
  • Title (English) Avodat Levi
  • Title (Hebrew) עבודת הלוי
  • Note Only Edition - Signed by Author
  • Author R. Jacob Isaac Ruderman
  • City Kedainiai
  • Publisher דפוס מובשוביץ וכהן
  • Publication Date 1930
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 2056768
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Physical Description

Only edition, folio, 154 pp, 331:225 mm., light age staining, extra wide margins. A good copy bound in modern wrappers.

Signed dedication by the Author on title.

 

Detailed Description   

R. Jacob Isaac b. Judah Loeb haLevi Ruderman (1901–1987), U.S. rosh yeshivah. Ruderman was born in Dologinovo (Delhinov), Russia, and in his youth was known as the "Delhinov illui." He studied under the rabbis Moses Epstein and Nathan Ẓevi Finkel in Slobodka, and was ordained in 1926. In 1930 he arrived in the United States, and joined the faculty of the yeshivah previously established by his father-in-law, R. Sheftel Kramer, in New Haven, which soon moved to Cleveland. In 1933, Ruderman became rabbi of Congregation Tifereth Israel in Baltimore, where he organized the Ner Israel Rabbinical College. Unexpectedly, at least for outsiders, he succeeded in establishing a European-style yeshivah in the United States, one in which secular studies were not pursued but religious texts alone were studied. Under his guidance it became one of the leading yeshivot of America. In 1961 he established a branch of the yeshivah in Toronto, which was later headed by his son-in-law, R. Jacob Weinberg. Ruderman participated in the formation of Torah Umesorah in 1944, and subsequently served as chairman of its rabbinical advisory board. He also was a member of the Mo'eẓet Gedolei ha-Torah of Agudat Israel. Ruderman's novellae to Maimonides on the talmudic orders of Kodashim and Tohorot were published under the title Avodat Levi in 1930. His son-in-law became his successor.

 

כולל חדושי הלכות וביאורי סוגיות ושיטות הרמב"ם בעניני קדשים וטהרה ... חנן ה’ אותי ... יעקב יצחק הלוי רודערמאן באאמ"ו ... ר’ יהודה ליב זצ"ל.

ראינו טפסים בהם נשמט המפתח אשר בשני הדפים האחרונים. נראה שהם נדפסו אחרי צאת הספר לאור.

 

Reference

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960  #000166770; O. Rand (ed.), Toledot Anshei Shem (1950), 129; http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org