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Che cos'è la metapsichica moderna

The Enjoyment of Math

Socialismo liberale

Talmud Eser HaSefirot

תלמוד עשר הספירות

20th-century detailed explanation of the kabbalistic teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria.

Like All the Nations?

Like All the Nations? — work by Judah Leon Magnes (1930).

מכתב הגאון רבי אהרן וולקין אב"ד פינסק

מכתב הגאון רבי אהרן וולקין אב"ד פינסק

Letter in the handwriting and signed by Gaon Rabbi Aaron Volkin, to the emigrants from the city of Pinsk in New York. Pinsk, 2 Shevat 5690 [1930]. A moving letter of request to "the men of our city distant from our eyes and close to our hearts" to support the great yeshiva in his city of Pinsk, numbering over two hundred young men "and although their spiritual sustenance shall not lack to them, but here lies the trouble... the students of the yeshiva shall suffer terrible hardship in their material sustenance and shall endure almost hunger... it is difficult to see these precious and dear ones meditating on the Torah of the Lord day and night how they trembled from the desert heat upon themselves and darkness of black their appearance from great poverty and hardship...". Gaon Rabbi Aaron Volkin (5585–5702, Otzar HaRabbanim 1548), one of the greatest halakhic authorities and Torah teachers in Lithuania. He studied in Volozhin and was among the select students of the Netziv, later studied in the kollel of the separated in Kovno and was protected in the shadow of Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Spektor. He served as rabbi of the communities of Grozd, Shad and Amtsislav. During the First World War he was arrested by the Russians and while imprisoned wrote his work "Beit Aaron" on the tractate Bava Kamma. He fled miraculously to Poland and there was appointed as rabbi of the city and head of yeshiva in Pinsk-Karlin. Author of "Beit Aaron", "Hoshen Aaron", "Metzach Aaron" and responsa "Zaken Aaron". He perished in the Shoah. 27 cm. Good condition, tears at fold marks.

Tibetisch-chinesische Wortgleichungen: Ein Versuch

Tibetisch-chinesische Wortgleichungen: Ein Versuch — work by Walter Simon (1930).

Eden Mikedem (sermons / Midrash)

עדן מקדם

Zamknięty pokój (La Chambre fermée)

Poetry collection by Henryka Łazowertówna. (1930)

In Shoen Fun Libshaft

סדר עלוי הנשמות

סדר עלוי הנשמות

This is a collection of liturgy and prayers for mourners in the Baghdadi style. Dimensions: 16.20 cm × 10.20 cm. Publisher: Shlomoh Bilporṭi. Place of publication: Livorno, Italy. 148 page(s).

Atlas für Politik, Wirtschaft und Arbeiterbewegung

Gevetn (Competition)

An Indian Diary

Ohr Penimi on Talmud Eser HaSefirot

אור פנימי על תלמוד עשר הספירות

20th-century definitions of kabbalistic terms, alongside the author’s more detailed explanation of Rabbi Isaac Luria’s teachings.

La ricerca psichica

SINAI. Ein Lehrbuch jüdischer Religion

SINAI. A Textbook of Jewish Religion — work by Salomon Samuel (1930).

Hakhsharat HaAvrekhim

הכשרת האברכים

Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira’s sequel to his Chovat HaTalmidim

Hebrew Reborn

Book by Shalom Spiegel. (1930)

Job (Hiob)

Also sprach Farkas. Heiteres von Karl Farkas

Also sprach Farkas. Heiteres von Karl Farkas — work by Karl Farkas (1930).

סדר הגדה של פסח

סדר הגדה של פסח

This is a Baghdadi Passover Hagadah that includes Judeo-Arabic. Dimensions: 16.20 cm × 10.80 cm. Publisher: Defus ʻE. Dangur. Place of publication: Baghdad, Iraq. 136 page(s).

Storia della Pittura Moderna

Book by Margherita Sarfatti. (1930)

סדור מנחת ירושלם

סדור מנחת ירושלם

This is a prayer book for the afternoon and weekday service according to the Baghdadi custom printed in Livorno. Dimensions: 14.80 cm × 10.00 cm. Publisher: Mi-Yad Shelomoh Belforte ṿa-Ḥavero. Place of publication: Livorno, Italy. 85 page(s).