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Talmud Babli - Babylonischer Talmud Tractat Berachoth Segensprüche. Mit deutscher Uebersetzung und den Commentaren Raschi und Tosephoth (Babylonian Talmud Tractate Berachoth Blessings. With German Translation and the Commentaries of Rashi and the Tosafot) [OFFERED WITH:] Compendium des Hierosolymitanischen und Babylonischen Thalmud (Compendium of the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud)

Pinner, Ephraim Moses

Berlin: Published by the author, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. 1. Talmud Babli - Babylonishcer Talmud Tractat Berachoth Segensprüche. Berlin: Eigenthum des Verfassers, 1842. Elephant folio. [7], 16, [1], 24; [1], 87 (numbered in pairs = 174) pp. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With both German and Hebrew title-pages, each printed in red and black ink. Light foxing throughout. Fore-edge of German title-page crudely repaired with non abrasive tape. Mold stain to upper margin of the last 10 leaves (not affecting text). Text in Hebrew, Aramaic and German. German title reinforced at fore-edge; Hebrew title and dedication leaf repaired at versos. Top trimmed tightly with some loss of headlines. Occasional spots or smudges, else text generally clean.

First edition (all published). Scarce scholarly commentary and German translation of the first book in the Babylonian Talmud, tractate "Berachoth" (Blessings). Compiled and translated by archaeologist and Talmudic scholar Ephraim Moses Pinner. The “Pinner Talmud” bears a dedication to Czar Nicholas I of Russia and contains an extensive introduction, table of contents and subscribers list. The work includes the traditional printed Talmud page with the text in the middle and the Rashi and Tosafot commentaries on the side with a Hebrew “Biur” commentary and etymology section added to the bottom of the page. Facing each Aramaic page is a German page, including a translation and commentary. Also included in the rear are the commentaries of Rosh, Maimonides, Marshal and Marsha.

2. Compendium des Hierosolymitanischen und Babylonischen Thalmud. Ein Betrag zur Geschichte der Israeliten und Eine Probeschrift der zu erscheinenden deutschen Uebersetzung des ganzen Talmuds. Berlin: [n.p.], 1832. Small quarto. xlviii. 132 pp. Blue paper covered boards. Hebrew and German title page. Printed on very high quality cotton rag paper. Serious age wear to binding, with water stains and parts missing at spine and edges. Minor browning throughout. Overall very clean and tight. In German [Gothic script] and Hebrew. Binding in poor, book in very good condition.

First edition, second issue (all published) of this introduction and chrestomathy with selections from the Jerusalem and Babylonian versions of the Talmud. This was to be the first volume of a planned series on the Talmud. Introductory material covers the origins, language and authenticity of the Talmud, and provides a biography of Simeon Bar-Yohai, the famous rabbi who lived in the era of the Tannaim (scholars of the Mishnah) in the area of what is today Israel, after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Bar-Yohai was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva. The Zohar, a chief work of Jewish mysticism ("Kabbalah") is traditionally ascribed to Simeon, as are the important legal homilies called Sifre and Mekhilta. First published in 1831 (other title-pages, as ours, note 1832), the Compendium des Hierosolymitanischen und Babylonischen Thalmud / Kitzur Talmud Yerushalmi ve-Talmud Bavli marked the beginning of Pinner's larger project to produce a translation of the entire Talmud. Pinner's work took him to libraries across Eastern Europe. He even secured the aid of the anti-Jewish Czar Nicholas I and dedicated the translation to him. Only the first of the proposed 28 volumes was ever published. Besides for securing sponsorships from royalty across European, Pinner gained letters of approbation from several rabbis, none of whom lived in Russia. g to g+. Item #30652

Full titles: [1] Talmud Babli - Babylonischer Talmud Tractat Berachoth Segensprüche.Mit deutscher Uebersetzung und den Commentaren Raschi und Tosephoth nebst den verschiendenen Verbesserungen aller früheren Ausgaben. Hinzugefügt sind: Neue Lesarten und Parallelstellen in allen Theilen diesäes Tractates und der Commentare, Vokalisation der Mischnah, Interpunktion der Mischnah, Interpunktion der Mischnah und Gemara, Raschi und Tosephoth, Etymologie und Uebertragung der fremden Wörter, Erklärungen des Meharschal und Meharscha, R. Ascher mit Erläuterung der Halachah und den abweichenden Lesarten, R. Moscheh's, Sohnes R. Maimon's, Commentar zur Mischnah mit Berichtigungen, Einleitung in den Talmud, enthaltend Grundprincipien der Methodologie und Exegetik des Talmud. Von Dr. E. M. Pinner, Membre de la Société Asiatique de Paris &c. &c. &c. Erster band. [2] Compendium des Hierosolymitanischen und Babylonischen Thalmud. Ein Betrag zur Geschichte der Israeliten und Eine Probeschrift der zu erscheinenden deutschen Uebersetzung des ganzen Talmuds. Uebersetzt und erläutert von M. Pinner, Dr. der Philosophie. Mit einer Vorrede von Johann Joachim Kellermann... Erster Band. Entstehung, Sprache, Aechtheit des Thalmud, Reden und Thaten des Rabbi Simon, des Sohnes des Jochai.

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