Dear Friends,
First, all of us at Jerusalem Books would like to invite any of our friends and anyone who will be attending the Jerusalem Int'l Book Fair, who is involved with, selection and / or acquisition of books from Israel, to join us for a RECEPTION on February 20, 2007, 6-8:30PM at the Crown Plaza Hotel, with some wine and cheese and Klezmer Violin. The event will be in a suite at the hotel, please contact us for the suite number or any info. Often we see unusual, high quality books which may of limited prints and of course, if they are in profile we send them. Sometimes if the material is of interest but perhaps self published or important but not clearly within the profile, we send flyers. This is one of those occasions where the material is important and unusual but self published and expensive. The volume entitled, Sefer Segulot ve-Yishuot, includes facsimiles of several works from manuscript. They are the work of the 18th Century, Yemenite scholar, sage and cantor, Rabbi Reuven Shemaya, who emigrated with many manuscripts including these, on Philosophy, custom, Astronomy and astrology and magic, including, medicine, and amulets as well as ethics dating from the 7th to 13th cent's. The publisher is Yeshua Ben David Salam. I cannot guarantee or verify how many copies are in print but if it is available we can get it. I think that you may want this for the library collection. Cat. # 62139 $138.00 Sefer Pnei Yehoshua, an 18th cent. Talmud and Aggada classic has been re- published by HAMOR Institute, / Machon HAMAOR in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Jerusalem, by Rabbi Daniel Bitton. This is a 6 volume work, Cat. # 62154 and sells for $168.00 This important scholarly work includes clear headings, footnotes, authors (R Yaakov Yehoshua) biography and over 800 footnotes in each volume. A recent title which merits comment is Rav Yehoshua Weitzman, has published, Raba Emunatekha, lessons on Midrash Raba. The book is scholarly, with serious footnotes and a nice index to all of Talmud and other Midrash Aggada and another subject index. The author is the Rosh Yeshiva in Maalot on the Lebanese border and the book is highly recommended. Cat. # 61891 $17.50 The next rabbinic work is mentioned because we want to recommend it but also to remind those who are interested, about significant publishers of this kind of material. One such publisher is Machon Harav Mazliah an important publisher of Sephardi books. R Moshe Horev is the author of the book entitled, Sefer Keter Torah, which deals with the Talmudic Principles of the Baale Hatosfot, early, Rishonim / Sages (who were, as I recall mostly Ashkenazim living in France and Germany, although some did come from Spain.). The work also includes many translations and explanations of Aramaic, Talmudic terms This constitutes the second edition, 2006, while the first edition came out in 2005. Cat. #62211 $21.00 In the realm of known publishers that everyone wants, Mossad Harav Kook has published some new books. The description new is critical here as this publisher is known for occasionally releasing new editions of books previously published, (by them), without clear indication that it is an offset or re-issue. The first is a two volume work entitled, Shamati mi-Ravi, Avi Ad Sar Shalom, which are the teachings and Bible commentary of R Eliezer Shalom haCohen Litovsky, (zl c.1931), as heard, saved and edited by R Yisrael Barzstitsky, who perished in the Lodz Ghetto. Rabbi Letovsky had been a Dayan, the Judge of Lodz for over thirty years and the book not only includes rare and priceless Bible interpretation but also references to other European sages and even some tragic Holocaust history. Cat. #62210 $ 34.00 Another important book just published by the Mossad Harav Kook, is by Dr. Yehoshafat Nevo, Eli Mikra, Iyun ve-Heker be-Sugiyout Mikraiot. This work contains much Jewish Thought and Philosophy, as well as analysis of commentary including Rashi and Rambam to the Maharam. The work is scholarly, with footnotes and deals with many significant issues from nationalism and messianism to relations with Christianity, the Spanish expulsion as well as the influences of Islam from the 7th to the 10th Cent. (CE). I cannot recommend this work more highly. Its a "Must Have". Cat. #62176 $19.50 Lastly, from Mossad Harav Kook, I must mention the recent publication of, Perushei HaRamban LeYerushalmi, Nashim tractate, Volume II. This work, edited by Yoel Florsheim, is scholarly, with copious footnotes and multiple indices. It is a work which analyzes and compiles the teachings of Nachmanides the 13th Cent Spanish Jewish Sage, first published now, from manuscripts. The only obvious caveat, caution, is that this is part of an ongoing series. Cat. #62177 $24.50 Since we have mentioned publications by Mossad Harav Kook we should complete the discussion by adding that scholar and researcher of Hassidut, Yitzhak Alfassi, has authored and edited the first volume in a new series entitled: Torat Ha-Hassidut. This volume and the future volumes is an impressive work listing great Hassidic Rabbis from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including their teachers and students and their philosophies, thought, including references to their teachings by other sages. The work is arranged by Hassidic Dynasties, cross referenced, over 1600 figures / entries in the whole series. Cat. #62304 $31.00 (vol. 1) Yad Hrav Herzog has published another in the series Encyclopedia Talmudit, Otzar Hannuka, isbn 965-445-000-3. We have been debating this at Jerusalem Books. We have many customers who get the series on standing order, but this volume is collected from within the series, including earlier Vol. 16. However, we have had so much interest in the series, on Talmud and Halacha and the work includes over 2000 footnotes, and it can stand alone as well as being part of a series, that we highly recommend it to any library that collects books for Talmud study and research. Cat. # 62164, $ 19.00 The Talmud Yerushalmi from Ketuvim is, highly recommended. The edition is a new edition with all in one Volume. It has clear square print. The text is divided, for the first time into paragraphs which are numbered. The sources of biblical quotes are included and the volume includes seven indices, which include over 27,000 entries and cross-references including 2 subject indexes. The book includes a 35 page English Introduction which discusses the Talmud Yerushalmi and its commentators / commentaries. The book is the product of the work of Rabbi 's Shmuel and Hanoch Hevlin, known scholars and is edited by Zvi Preisler a halakha scholar and student of R' Menachem Elon. Cat. #62409 $146.00 All of us at Jerusalem Books, wish you a warm and healthy winter and a Happy Purim. 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