Talmud

Mielziner, Moses. INTRODUCTION TO THE TALMUD : HISTORICAL AND LITERARY INTRODUCTION, LEGAL HERMENEUTICS OF THE TALMUD, TALMUDICAL TERMINOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY, OUTLINES OF TALMUDICAL ETHICS. APPENDIX: KEY TO THE ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TALMUD AND ITS COMMENTARIES. 1903. New York : Funk & Wagnalls. ; fester Einband / hard cover

Cloth. 8vo. 297 pages. Second revised edition. SUBJECT (S) : Talmud -- introductions. "Mielziner [1828-1903] was born and educated in Germany, where he began his rabbinic career. He headed a Jewish school in Copenhagen, Denmark, while earning his Ph. D. From the University of Giessen. Immigrating to the United States, Mielziner served as a congregational rabbi and educator in New York City until 1879, when Isaac Mayer Wise appointed him professor of Talmud at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Upon Wise's death, Mielziner was chosen interim president of the seminary, a position he held for three years, from 1900 until his death. Mielziner was a charter member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and his scholarly input on relevant subjects had an important influence on early discussions of CCAR policy. He published several treatises on Jewish law...but is best known for his classic work Introduction to the Talmud, published originally in 1894 and reissued three times since... Mielziner's exposition of talmudic methodology - featuring a skillful dissection of the Talmud's distinctive system of technical terms and phrases adapted to its unique methods of investigation and demonstration - has been an indispensable handbook for the serious student of the Talmud for more than a century. " (EJ, 2007) Ex library. Covers edgeworn, good condition. This edition seldom available. (RAB-22-26)

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(jt)Heighway, Osborn W. Trenery. LEILA ADA, THE JEWISH CONVERT: AN AUTHENTIC MEMOIR.

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1853. 12mo. Vii, 230 pages. First edition. Tissued frontispiece engraving of Leila Ada, inscribed "Yours in Jesus, Leila Ada. " A quote from the first chapter: "The Mishna is said to be an oral law, received from the lips of God, and intended as an exponent of his written law. But we should transgress the purity which religion demands, were we to quote some of its puerile and absurd follies. If those who penned it set about their work with an intention to shock common sense, and load the Jewish religion with contempt, they could scarcely have acquitted themselves better. And let no one suppose that our strictures are unkind: any one at all acquainted with the Mishna, will at once perceive them to be within the bounds of that charity and pity, which we owe to those who err. Indeed, it were but too easy to quote passages which would justify our severest censures. But withal, the Mishna is surrounded with a degree of obscurity and hardness, owing to its orientalisms, and a considerable pervasion of a sort of Hebraeo-Grecism in its structure. This obscurity has given rise to another commentary, called the Gemara, or completion. One Gemara, written in Palestine, forms with the Mishna, the Jerusalem Talmud, and another, written at Babylon, composes the Babylonish Talmud, Thus the Mishna, which the Jews declare to be God's own interpretation of his law, requires interpretation from man, and the whole together forms a mighty work of twelve folio volumes. These are the volumes which contain the whole of the Jewish divinity; for, dishonouring to God, they have almost completely withdrawn the Jews from the study of Moses and the Prophets. In common with the rest of her nation, the Talmud formed the basis of Leila's religious education. Of the Old Testament she knew comparatively little. It is far from certain, indeed, that she knew a great deal of the Talmud. For this there were causes: -first, she did not like its study: she tells us in her Reflections, that while believing in its divinity, as she was instructed, she experienced a smothered dislike to many of its forms, observances, and precepts. 'I felt it, ' she says, 'smouldering at the bottom of my heart long before I had moral courage to permit a single thought upon it. I shuddered at my suspicions as blasphemous, yet I could not conquer them. But as the Spirit of God opened my eyes, I felt no difficulty in fully avowing my severest thoughts upon the inane, absurd, debasing studies of the Talmud. I felt no compunction while I openly declared to my own heart that it was an impure, stupid fabrication, composed by fallen and sinful man. ' What a volume is contained in these few thrilling sentences! Would the sons of Jacob speak out, how many would tell us the same story? Impossible it is but that among them there are thousands who, while they dare not repudiate the Talmud, are conscious of a feeling of offence at its impurities, and absurdities. Secondly, her father, although strictly a Jew in belief and profession, gave himself little trouble about their requirements and observances, and, therefore, was very far from pressing them upon his daughter. " Singerman 1278. SUBJECT (S) : Christian converts from Judaism -- Biography. Lacks outer binding. Ex-library with minimal markings. Usual age staining. First signature detached, but present. Text in good condition. (AMR-5-28)

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(Jt) Ratner, Dov Baer. SEFER AHAVAT TSIYON VI-YERUSHALAYIM : KOLEL SHINUYE NUSHAOT VE-GIRSAOT ME-TALMUD YERUSHALMI, HA-NIMTSAIM BE-SIFRE HA-RISHONIM, BE-DEFUSIM YESHANIM U-FRAGMENTIN KITVE YAD 'IM HE'AROT VE-TIKUNIM. VOLUMES 1, 3, 4 & 5. 1901, 1904, 1905, 19 Vilna : Bi-Defus Ha-Almanah Veha-Ahim Rom. ; fester Einband / hard cover

Cloth. (FT) 8vo. Vi, 217, 164, vi, 118, vi, 108 pages. In Hebrew. Volumes 1, 3, 4 and 5 bound together. SUBJECT(S) : Talmud Yerushalmi - criticism, textual; Talmud Yerushalmi - criticism, interpretation, etc. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Ratner (1852-1917) was a Lithuanian-born Talmud scholar. He began publishing at 16, and beginning in 1901 to publish Ahavat Tsiyon vi-Yerushalmi, eventually covering all of the Zera'im and Mo'ed from the Jerusalem Talmud. Ratner was also an early Zionist, and received Theodor Herzl in Vilna in 1903. (Preschel, EJ) Pages tanned and chipped, some loose, spine cocked, good condition. (RAB-18-5)

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(Jt) Ratner, Dov Baer. SEFER AHAVAT TSIYON VI-YERUSHALAYIM : KOLEL SHINUYE NUSHAOT VE-GIRSAOT ME-TALMUD YERUSHALMI, HA-NIMTSAIM BE-SIFRE HA-RISHONIM, BE-DEFUSIM YESHANIM U-FRAGMENTIN KITVE YAD 'IM HE'AROT VE-TIKUNIM. VOLUMES 2, 8, 9 & 11. 1902, 1911, 1912, 19 Vilna : Bi-Defus Ha-Almanah Veha-Ahim Rom. ; fester Einband / hard cover

Cloth. (FT) 8vo. Vi, 168, 148, 110, 144 pages. In Hebrew. Volumes 2, 8, 9 and 12 bound together. SUBJECT(S) : Talmud Yerushalmi - criticism, textual; Talmud Yerushalmi - criticism, interpretation, etc. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Ratner (1852-1917) was a Lithuanian-born Talmud scholar. He began publishing at 16, and beginning in 1901 to publish Ahavat Tsiyon vi-Yerushalmi, eventually covering all of the Zera'im and Mo'ed from the Jerusalem Talmud. Ratner was also an early Zionist, and received Theodor Herzl in Vilna in 1903. (Preschel, EJ) Boaz Cohen's copy with his donation stamp. Pages tanned and chipped, some loose, notes written on fly leaf, good condition. (RAB-18-6)

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