HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.
Horeb, Versuche über Jissroéls Pflichten in der Zerstreuung, zunächt für Jissroéls ...

HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.
Horeb, Versuche über Jissroéls Pflichten in der Zerstreuung, zunächt für Jissroéls denkende Jünglinge und Jungfrauen [“Horeb, Essay Concerning Israel's Duties in the Diaspora, Primarily for Israel's Thinking Young Men and Women.”]


FIRST EDITION. Text in German interspersed with Hebrew.
pp. 16, 795, (1). Foxed, upper portion of pp. 127-8 torn away and supplied in a contemporary hand, underscoring in magenta pencil, pp. 789-90 detached. Final two pages crudely repaired with some minor loss of text. Contemporary half-calf boards, rubbed, spine starting. 8vo.
Altona: Johann Friedrich Hammerich 1837
Horeb was published shortly before Rabbiner Hirsch turned thirty years of age. In time, the book became the most celebrated of his works and established the Author’s reputation as an insightful and original Jewish thinker. Hirsch set down here his unique system of Ta'amei HaMitzvoth (rationales of the precepts) noting numerous sources culled from a wide range of Rabbinic literature. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, A Biography (1996) pp. 67-72.
Horeb was published shortly before Rabbiner Hirsch turned thirty years of age. In time, the book became the most celebrated of his works and established the Author’s reputation as an insightful and original Jewish thinker. Hirsch set down here his unique system of Ta'amei HaMitzvoth (rationales of the precepts) noting numerous sources culled from a wide range of Rabbinic literature. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, A Biography (1996) pp. 67-72.