Tuesday, May 11, 2010

An unusual 19th century edition of Maimonides' Mishneh Thorah.

Here are a couple of volumes of the 'Tsarist Mishneh Torah':









Click here for Dr. Michael Stanislawski's article describing איזה הלכות מיד החזקה לאדמו"ר הרמב"ם נ"ע.

4 comments:

  1. See also Katzman's article in Yeshurun IV, pp. 648-82 on the topic. It is on Hebrewbooks here http://hebrewbooks.org/20308

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  2. The actual "שו"ת" of "הרב ר' מנחם נ"י דליובאוויטש" who of course strenuously opposed this project, can be found here beginning at the bottom of the page; the autograph can be viewed here at the middle of the page.

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  3. Parenthetically, that letter constitutes a fascinating exposition on traditional Jewish chinuch.

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