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LOT 391:
Agan HaSahar by Rabbi Aharon Chaim HaLevi Zimmerman. Only Edition. New York, 1954. Rare!
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Agan HaSahar by Rabbi Aharon Chaim HaLevi Zimmerman. Only Edition. New York, 1954. Rare!
Background: Comprehensive work about the international date line and the laws of Kiddush HaChodesh, written in the wake of the halachic debate regarding the international date line that raged in the 1950s. [Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky and the Chazon Ish published many articles on the subject.] Rabbi Chaim Aharon Zimmerman composed his work Agan HaSahar on this topic. He believed that only a few people would be able to comprehend his writing and composition, so he printed a limited edition of just a few hundred copies, hence the rarity and significance of this work.
Rabbi Aharon Chaim Zimmerman (1914-1995) was born in Konotop, Ukraine. His father, Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Zimmerman, was a brother-in-law of Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz's. He was a child prodigy and, as a young man, studied under his uncle in the Kaminetz yeshivah. He moved to the United States and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik. He was Rosh Yeshivah in Skokie near Chicago until 1964. He then moved to Jerusalem, where he passed away in 1995.
Specifications: [20] 90 [10] pages. 28 cm. Not found in the National Library.
Condition: Very fine.
