REGGIO, ISAAC SAMUEL.

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 205

REGGIO, ISAAC SAMUEL.

Ma’amar ha-Tiglachath [on the prohibition of shaving the beard during the intermediate days of a festival] pp. 54. (Vinograd, Vienna 765). Vienna, Anton Schmid, 1835. * Bound With: Rabinowitz, Moshe Yehudah. Mispeid Gadol Ve-Kaveid [eulogy on R. Israel Salanter]. Warsaw, N. Schriftgosser. 1883 Second work leaves browned and brittle. Recent boards, chipped. 8vo

Est: $200 - $300

Isaac Samuel Reggio (YaSHa"R) (1784-1855), founder of the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano at Padua, has been regarded as the Moses Mendelssohn of Italian Jewry. His iconoclastic and anti-traditionalist views assured him adversaries from among the Orthodox rabbinate. This particular tract, which boldly permits shaving on Chol ha-Mo'ed was refuted both by Jacob Ezekiel Halevi (Tisporeth Lulyanith, Berlin, 1839) and by Reggio's own father Abraham Vita Reggio (Tiglachath ha-Ma'amar, Livorno, 1844). Reggio proposes that those men who shave on a daily basis be allowed to shave on the intermediate days of a festival. Today, this leniency is attributed to R. Ezekiel Landau of Prague (responsa Noda B'Yehudah) and to R. Moses Feinstein of New York (responsa Igroth Moshe)