(KAGAN, YISRAEL MEIR OF RADIN).
AUCTION 57 |
Thursday, January 31st,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 136
(KAGAN, YISRAEL MEIR OF RADIN).
v.p.: v.d
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $700
The volume “Chofetz Chaim,” published anonymously, is a pioneering work on the laws of lashon-hara and rechiluth (derogatory speech and malicious gossip). The author, R. Israel Meir Kagan (1838-1933), was later acclaimed as the preeminent Halachic decisor and “tzaddik” of his generation. Today, he is universally referred as the Chofetz Chaim after the title of this ground-breaking an justly famous text.
The second and third works bound into this volume are comprehensive discussions of the philosophy behind the Jewish concepts of the power of speech, and serve to motivate the reader to be vigilant in the ethical usage of language. The fourth work is a pioneering halachic and aggadic study on the laws and ethics of benevolence.