(KAGAN, YISRAEL MEIR OF RADIN).

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Four works bound in one volume: * Chofetz Chaim. FIRST EDITION . pp. 162. Vilna, 1873. * Shmirath Halashon. Second edition. The final leaf contains the table of contents and corrections to the first work, Chofetz Chaim. pp. 76. Vilna, 1879. * Sefath Tamim. pp. 14. Vilna, 1879. * Ahavath Chesed. ff. 56. FIRST EDITION . Warsaw, 1888.

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.