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Agan ha-Sahar, R. Aaron Hayyim ha-Levi Zimerman, 1954

אגן הסהר - First Edition - Limited Edition

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  • Lot Number 52982
  • Title (English) Agan ha-Sahar
  • Title (Hebrew) אגן הסהר
  • Note First Edition
  • Author R. Aaron Hayyim ha-Levi Zimerman
  • City Brooklyn
  • Publisher בלשן
  • Publication Date 1954
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 2283884
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Physical Description

First edition, [4], XXII-IX, [1], 3-490, [6]  pp., quarto 275:195 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original boards.

Limited edition of 300 copies.

 

Detail Description

Comprehensive work on the sensitive issue of the international date line in Halakhah by R. Aaron Hayyim b. Jacob Moses ha-Levi Zimerman.  The issue is one that has been addressed extensively, as the precise location of the international date line effects the Sabbath and festivals. According to the presently effective international agreement, when it is the Sabbath in Israel it is Sunday in certain parts of the Pacific. Now, when shall Jews in these Pacific islands observe the Sabbath—on the seventh day by their local calendar, or on Sunday, on the theory that it was G-d's intent that the Sabbath day be computed with Jerusalem as the center of time? The problem is reminiscent of the great medieval dispute as to whether the earth or the sun was the center of the universe. The Church chose the earth and any other opinion was declared heresy. Similarly, many rabbis argued that Jerusalem was the center for the computation of time, and that no other place would satisfy the requirements of Jewish law.

R. Aaron Hayyim b. Jacob Moses ha-Levi Zimerman (d. 1995), rabbi and talmudic scholar. R. Zimmerman was and nephew of R. Baruch Ber Lebowitz and descendant of the Soloveitchik family. Possessed with a keen mind and a photographic memory, R. Zimmerman was a scholar with immense knowledge and reputation. He studied in REITS and was the last student to receive rabbinical ordination from R. Moshe Soloveitchik. Reb Chaim, as he was called by his students and disciples was Rosh Yeshiva of Hebrew Theological College in Chicago until 1964, and later a Rosh Yeshiva in New York City. His last twenty years were spent in Jerusalem. Reb Chaim Zimmerman was perhaps the Gaon HaDor of his time. His knowledge of Torah was indisputable. R. Zimmerman also wrote: Binyan Halakha (New York 1942), novellae to the Rambam's Mishne Torah; Agan ha-Sahar (New York 1954) his Magnum Opus on one of the most difficult subjects in Halacha, the international time zone. His work is pure genius. It was said about him that he understood quantum theory as well as did Niels Bohr when most of the scientific community had scarcely heard of it yet.

 

Hebrew Description:   

ספר אגן הסהר : בירור הלכה... אודות מקומו של קו התאריך שבו הוא התחלת מנין ימי השבוע ושעותיהם על כדור הארץ ועיונים בעניני הלכות קידוש החודש, מאת אהרן חיים הלוי צימערמאן בהגאון... ר’ יעקב משה שליט"א

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References

EJ; ibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 # 000314652