Description: This is the deluxe, large, vintage, six volume set, that anyone seriously studying R' S. R. Hirsch should own. This is the entire Pentateuch with the legendary commentary of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, 19th century German Rabbi, translation to English by Isaac Levy. This is the larger blue set up for sale, the most enjoyable set to study from. Set includes: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus I, Leviticus II, Numbers, Deuteronomy. This is a must for critical Bible Study of the Old Testament and even a help when comparing to the New Testament. Condition: No writing anywhere inside these volumes, besides for a name on each blank page. Genesis volume has a small ink stamp. The volumes in this set were printed between 1959-62, and the Genesis volume is the first edition. The volumes' covers are excellent with the original glossy sheen present. There is foxing to page edges when closed and to end pages, and lightly to a few covers, but interior is free and very white. Minor staining to a few page margins, but interior very clean. Binding is very good. Covers have some minor scuffing. Excellent study sized volumes. Samson Raphael Hirsch (June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism. Hirsch was rabbi in Oldenburg, Emden, and was subsequently appointed chief rabbi of Moravia. From 1851 until his death, Hirsch led the secessionist Orthodox community in Frankfurt am Main. He wrote a number of influential books, and for a number of years published the monthly journal Jeschurun, in which he outlined his philosophy of Judaism. He was a vocal opponent of Reform Judaism and similarly opposed early forms of Conservative Judaism.A final area of his work, which has only recently been rediscovered, was his etymological analysis of the Hebrew language. Most of this work is contained in his Torah commentary, where he analyses and compares the shorashim (three-letter root forms) of a large number of Hebrew words and develops an etymological system of the Hebrew language. This approach is based on the idea that letters that share a phonetic similarity, have similar meaning. For example, the words Zohar (light), Tzohar (translucent window), and Tahor (purity) are related words because the letters Zayin, Tzadie, and Tet are phonetically similar. This is an approach used in many places by the renowned biblical commentator Rashi as well. Although this effort was, in his own words, "totally unscientific", it has led to the recent publication of an "etymological dictionary of the Hebrew language". Although Hirsch does not mention his influences (apart from traditional Jewish sources), later authors have identified ideas from the Kuzari (Yehuda Halevi), Nahmanides and the Maharal of Prague in his works. Nevertheless, most of his ideas are original.
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