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Hasidic discourses (Gaster Hebrew MS 1358)
Hasidic discourses by Rabbi Menachem Mendel (RMM), Rabbi Dov Baer (RDB) and possibly others (not all discourses have been identified).
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Hebrew Manuscripts
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1358
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 1358
- Title: Hasidic discourses
- Alternative Title(s): תורת חב"ד
- Origin Place: Russian Empire, in or around the town of Lubavitch
- Date of Creation: 19th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Note(s):
Front paste-down: summary and table of content (TOC).
Contains the following discources:
folios 1a – 4b: ‘“Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it” (Exodus 20:7); but it also is written, “Guard the Sabbath day to sanctify it” (Deuteronomy 5:11) / זכור את יום השבת לקדשו וכתי' שמור את יום כ;
folios 5a – 6b: ‘Explanation of the root of the concept of receiving the Torah: What is it?’ / ביאור שורש ענין קבלת התורה מה ענינה. (Bibliographical information in TOC: The discourse and the elucidation: examine there well / הדרוש והביאור יעויין בתורה אור פ' יתרו עש"ה;
folios 7a – 12a: ‘Take up the headcount of the entire congregation of the Israelites according to the number of names etc. according to their skulls’ (Numbers 1:2) / שאו את ראש כל עדת בנ”י במספר שמות כו’ לגולגלותם;
folios 12a – 16b: Elucidation of the above; to understand the root of the abovementioned matters / ביאור על הנ"ל להבין שורש הדברים הנ"ל;
folios 17a – 24a: ‘However, just as I live and the glory of the Lord fills the entire earth’ (Numbers 14:21) / ואולם חי אני וימלא כבוד ה' את כל הארץ;
folio 24b: ‘Synopsis of the above teaching’ / קיצור מהתורה הנ”ל;
folios 25a – 28b: ‘To understand the root of the matters on the verse “However, just as I live”’ / להבין שורשי הדברים ע"פ ואולם חי אני. (At the end: ‘missing’ / חסר.) (Bibliographical information in TOC: The discourse and the elucidation ???: printed in the book ‘The Way of Thy Commandments’, at its end, from folio 178 to folio 186’ [in the old print] / הדרוש והביאור ב??ות נדפס בס' דרך מצותיך בסופו מן דף קע"ח עד דף קפ"ו.);
folios 29a – 32b: Rabbi Menachem Mendel, ‘He called to Moses … A person who offers up from you’ (Leviticus 1:1-2) / ויקרא אל משה וגו' אדם כי יקריב מכם. Sabbath of the intermediate days of Passover, 5591 [AM = 1831 CE] / שבת חוה"מ פסח תקצ"א. (Bibliographical information in TOC: In Liḳute Torah, Leviticus 2a, discourse beginning ‘A person who offers up from you’; see there the first half of the discourse; examine there well / בלקוטי תורה ויקרא ב' א' ד"ה אדם כי יקריב מכם ע"ש הדרוש מחצה הראשון יעש"ה).
folios 37a – 79a: Rabbi Dov Baer Shneuri of Lubavitch, ‘The Lord said to me, Do not besiege Moab’ (Deuteronomy 2:9) / ויאמר ה’ אלי אל תצר את מואב. RDB. Published twice: [a] in 1975/6, by Rabbi Yehoshua Mondshine, as a stand-alone book; [b] RDB, Deuteronomy vol. 1, pp. 1 – 104. (TOC: ‘The discourse was said by [RDB], whose soul is in the supernal treasure-houses, in 5585 before the Gaon Rabbi Akiva Eger in Poznan, although it is lengthy / הדרוש הוא נא[מ] מרבינו האמצעי נ”ע תקפ”ה לפני הגאון כ’ עקיבא איגר בפוזנא עם הדרוש (.משוח
folios 80a – 109b. ‘At that time, I begged the Lord for grace, saying’ (Deuteronomy 3:23) / ואתחנן אל ה' בעת ההיא לאמר
folios 110a – 121b. ‘The Jews accepted what they had begun to do’ (Esther 9:23) / וקבל היהודים את אשר החלו לעשות. (Caption [seemingly giving the location where the discourse was delivered]: מאהליוו שאצל אקשין וואלעכיי') (Marginal cross-reference in same hand as TOC, f. 119a.)
folios 122a – 132a: ‘To understand the mishnah that “The Sages repeated in the language of the Mishnah: There are five acquisitions"’ (Ethics of the Fathers, chapter 6) / להבין המשנה ששנו חכמים בלשון המשנה חמשה קנינים
folios 132b – 133b: ‘Elucidation in brief: the difference between Sabbath and the new month; To understand the difference between Sabbath and the new month’ / ביאור בקצרה חילוק בין שבת לר"ח; להבין החילוק שבין שבת לר”ח;
folios 134a – 151a: Rabbi Dov Baer Shneuri of Lubavitch. ‘Tract on Ecstasy’, starting with second introductory letter. Published: RDB Booklets, p. 51 & ff. - Extent: 152 ff. (152+i) Leaf height: 177 mm, width: 106 mm.
- Collation:
Catchwords at the bottom left corner of each page.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Codex
- Condition:
Some stains. Bookworm holes through binding and some intial and final folios towards spine. Spine exposed towards top and bottom band.
- Binding:
Brown leather binding with different leather used for boards and spine. Blind-tooled decoration on spine with flowers and bands. Traces of green label with blind-tooled lettering reading "כתבי / קדוש".
- Script:Ashkenazi cursive script.
- Foliation:
Hebrew foliation at the top outer corner of side a of each folio, from 1 [א] to 134 [קלד], and starting again from 5 [ה] to 21 [כב] [here 5(2)-21(2)].
Stub between folios 79 – 80 counted in Hebrew alphanumeric foliation, but not in new foliation, so at this point the two foliations diverge by one.
- Layout:
Long line with 25 written lines.
- Origin:
Produced in the Russian Empire, in or around the town of Lubavitch, in the 19th century.
- Provenance:Paper label on spine with number 1358 handwritten in green ink.
Front paste-down: Number 1358 handwritten in blue ink. Ownership inscription at the top: most of the name is faded or rubbed out, but the word Goldin / גאלדין (= the surname?) is visible. Inscription in black ink: "19 1.2 בויגין בכרך הזה קל”ד דפים דרושים וקונטר’ התפעלות כד דפים ס”ה [= סך הכל] תשעה עשר וחצי בוגין" ("Work order: 19½ quires: In this volume, 134 folios of discourses plus the Tract on Ecstasy consisting of 24 folios, bringing the total to nineteen-and-a-half quires"), followed by the table of contents.
Folio ib and back paste-down: Pen trials and signatures in Hebrew. - Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Content description is provided by Israel Sandman; with contributions by Alexander Samely and Stefania Silvestri; edited by Zsófia Buda.
- Bibliography:
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Hebrew Manuscripts
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1358
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 1358
- Title: Hasidic discourses
- Alternative Title(s): תורת חב"ד
- Origin Place: Russian Empire, in or around the town of Lubavitch
- Date of Creation: 19th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Note(s):
Front paste-down: summary and table of content (TOC).
Contains the following discources:
folios 1a – 4b: ‘“Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it” (Exodus 20:7); but it also is written, “Guard the Sabbath day to sanctify it” (Deuteronomy 5:11) / זכור את יום השבת לקדשו וכתי' שמור את יום כ;
folios 5a – 6b: ‘Explanation of the root of the concept of receiving the Torah: What is it?’ / ביאור שורש ענין קבלת התורה מה ענינה. (Bibliographical information in TOC: The discourse and the elucidation: examine there well / הדרוש והביאור יעויין בתורה אור פ' יתרו עש"ה;
folios 7a – 12a: ‘Take up the headcount of the entire congregation of the Israelites according to the number of names etc. according to their skulls’ (Numbers 1:2) / שאו את ראש כל עדת בנ”י במספר שמות כו’ לגולגלותם;
folios 12a – 16b: Elucidation of the above; to understand the root of the abovementioned matters / ביאור על הנ"ל להבין שורש הדברים הנ"ל;
folios 17a – 24a: ‘However, just as I live and the glory of the Lord fills the entire earth’ (Numbers 14:21) / ואולם חי אני וימלא כבוד ה' את כל הארץ;
folio 24b: ‘Synopsis of the above teaching’ / קיצור מהתורה הנ”ל;
folios 25a – 28b: ‘To understand the root of the matters on the verse “However, just as I live”’ / להבין שורשי הדברים ע"פ ואולם חי אני. (At the end: ‘missing’ / חסר.) (Bibliographical information in TOC: The discourse and the elucidation ???: printed in the book ‘The Way of Thy Commandments’, at its end, from folio 178 to folio 186’ [in the old print] / הדרוש והביאור ב??ות נדפס בס' דרך מצותיך בסופו מן דף קע"ח עד דף קפ"ו.);
folios 29a – 32b: Rabbi Menachem Mendel, ‘He called to Moses … A person who offers up from you’ (Leviticus 1:1-2) / ויקרא אל משה וגו' אדם כי יקריב מכם. Sabbath of the intermediate days of Passover, 5591 [AM = 1831 CE] / שבת חוה"מ פסח תקצ"א. (Bibliographical information in TOC: In Liḳute Torah, Leviticus 2a, discourse beginning ‘A person who offers up from you’; see there the first half of the discourse; examine there well / בלקוטי תורה ויקרא ב' א' ד"ה אדם כי יקריב מכם ע"ש הדרוש מחצה הראשון יעש"ה).
folios 37a – 79a: Rabbi Dov Baer Shneuri of Lubavitch, ‘The Lord said to me, Do not besiege Moab’ (Deuteronomy 2:9) / ויאמר ה’ אלי אל תצר את מואב. RDB. Published twice: [a] in 1975/6, by Rabbi Yehoshua Mondshine, as a stand-alone book; [b] RDB, Deuteronomy vol. 1, pp. 1 – 104. (TOC: ‘The discourse was said by [RDB], whose soul is in the supernal treasure-houses, in 5585 before the Gaon Rabbi Akiva Eger in Poznan, although it is lengthy / הדרוש הוא נא[מ] מרבינו האמצעי נ”ע תקפ”ה לפני הגאון כ’ עקיבא איגר בפוזנא עם הדרוש (.משוח
folios 80a – 109b. ‘At that time, I begged the Lord for grace, saying’ (Deuteronomy 3:23) / ואתחנן אל ה' בעת ההיא לאמר
folios 110a – 121b. ‘The Jews accepted what they had begun to do’ (Esther 9:23) / וקבל היהודים את אשר החלו לעשות. (Caption [seemingly giving the location where the discourse was delivered]: מאהליוו שאצל אקשין וואלעכיי') (Marginal cross-reference in same hand as TOC, f. 119a.)
folios 122a – 132a: ‘To understand the mishnah that “The Sages repeated in the language of the Mishnah: There are five acquisitions"’ (Ethics of the Fathers, chapter 6) / להבין המשנה ששנו חכמים בלשון המשנה חמשה קנינים
folios 132b – 133b: ‘Elucidation in brief: the difference between Sabbath and the new month; To understand the difference between Sabbath and the new month’ / ביאור בקצרה חילוק בין שבת לר"ח; להבין החילוק שבין שבת לר”ח;
folios 134a – 151a: Rabbi Dov Baer Shneuri of Lubavitch. ‘Tract on Ecstasy’, starting with second introductory letter. Published: RDB Booklets, p. 51 & ff. - Extent: 152 ff. (152+i) Leaf height: 177 mm, width: 106 mm.
- Collation:
Catchwords at the bottom left corner of each page.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Codex
- Condition:
Some stains. Bookworm holes through binding and some intial and final folios towards spine. Spine exposed towards top and bottom band.
- Binding:
Brown leather binding with different leather used for boards and spine. Blind-tooled decoration on spine with flowers and bands. Traces of green label with blind-tooled lettering reading "כתבי / קדוש".
- Script:Ashkenazi cursive script.
- Foliation:
Hebrew foliation at the top outer corner of side a of each folio, from 1 [א] to 134 [קלד], and starting again from 5 [ה] to 21 [כב] [here 5(2)-21(2)].
Stub between folios 79 – 80 counted in Hebrew alphanumeric foliation, but not in new foliation, so at this point the two foliations diverge by one.
- Layout:
Long line with 25 written lines.
- Origin:
Produced in the Russian Empire, in or around the town of Lubavitch, in the 19th century.
- Provenance:Paper label on spine with number 1358 handwritten in green ink.
Front paste-down: Number 1358 handwritten in blue ink. Ownership inscription at the top: most of the name is faded or rubbed out, but the word Goldin / גאלדין (= the surname?) is visible. Inscription in black ink: "19 1.2 בויגין בכרך הזה קל”ד דפים דרושים וקונטר’ התפעלות כד דפים ס”ה [= סך הכל] תשעה עשר וחצי בוגין" ("Work order: 19½ quires: In this volume, 134 folios of discourses plus the Tract on Ecstasy consisting of 24 folios, bringing the total to nineteen-and-a-half quires"), followed by the table of contents.
Folio ib and back paste-down: Pen trials and signatures in Hebrew. - Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Content description is provided by Israel Sandman; with contributions by Alexander Samely and Stefania Silvestri; edited by Zsófia Buda.
- Bibliography:
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