1937 Saint And Sage Hafetz Hayim Rabbi Moses M. Yoshor Hebrew Jewish law

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1937 Saint And Sage Hafetz Hayim Rabbi Moses M. Yoshor Hebrew Jewish law:
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This sale is for the following original, vintage / antique book. Please forgive the shadows at the bottom of some of the images and the poor image quality - if you need more images just let me know. Overseas shipping keeps going up so please check shipping costs if you are outside the US. If you have any questions just let me know - thank you!
Book Title - Saint And Sage(Hafetz Hayim)
Book Author - Rabbi Moses M. Yoshor
Book Publisher/Year - Bloch Publishing Company, New York / 1937
Book Condition -Top edge of spine is damaged and missing that strip of cloth at top - edge rubbing but boards look overall solid. No writing - book opens easily at title page and a very old ink note was paper clipped at top - I cannot read note but it appears to be signed and is possibly written in Yiddish?- if anyone would care to share what it says please let me know and I will add to this description. There is an indent from paper clip and light sign of rust at those spots. Light stain at bottom margin of 248 - 249. An interesting book / worn with age - Good plus to VG minus.
notes -The \"Sefer Chafetz Chaim\" (or Chofetz Chaim or Hafetz Hayim) (Hebrew: חָפֵץ חַיִּים‎, trans. Desirer of Life) is the magnum opus of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, who later became known simply as The Chofetz Chaim. The book deals with the Jewish ethics and laws of speech, and is considered the authoritative source on the subject.
The title of the work Chafetz Chaim by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan is taken from Psalms :
Come, children, hearken to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Who is the man who desires life, who loves days to see goodness? Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceitfully. Shun evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it.
— Psalm 34:12–15The subject of the book is Hilchos Shmiras Halashon (Laws of Clean Speach). Rabbi Kagan provides copious sources from the Torah, Talmud and Rishonim (early commentators) about the severity of Jewish law on tale-mongering and gossip. Lashon hara, meaning evil speech (or loosely gossip and slander and prohibitions of defamation), is sometimes translated as prohibitions of slander, but in essence is concerning the prohibitions of saying evil/bad/unpleasant things about a person, whether or not they are true.
The book is divided into three parts:
Mekor Chayim (\"Source of Life\"), the legal text.Be\'er mayim chayim (\"Well of living water\"), the footnotes and legal argument.It is commonly printed together with the text Shemirath ha-Lashon (\"Guarding of the tongue\"), an ethical treatise on the proper use of the faculty of speech.
Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen Kagan is commonly known as the \"Chafetz Chaim,\" the name of his famous work on guarding one\'s tongue. He was born in Zhetel, Poland on February 6, 1838. As his reputation grew, students from all over Europe flocked to him and by 1869 his house became known as the Radin Yeshiva. The Chafetz Chaim published twenty one books. His first work, Sefer Chafetz Chaim (1873), is the first attempt to organize and clarify the laws regarding Lashon Hara. Other notable works include the Sefer Shmirat HaLashon, an ethical work on the importance of guarding one\'s tongue and the Mishnah Berurah (1894-1907) which is a commentary on the Orach Chayim, the first section of the Shulchan Aruch, and has been accepted universally among Ashkenazi Jews as an authoritative source of Halacha.

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