[Avodah] Shimon bar yochai interpretation

[Joshua Meisner]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Meir Shinnar <chidekel at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the Steinsaltz gemara on shabbbat 33, discussing the episode of shimon
> bar yochai in the cave, that when he left the cave the first time and saw
> people working, and that everyone that they saw they burned, a footnote
> cites the bet yaakov with an allegorical interpretation - that  everyone
> that they saw they convinced to study torah lishma (and leave material
> pursuits).   Given that their efforts were met by a response that they were
> destroying the world, and therefore sent back to the cave, this response is
> of some interest ..
> Does anyone know who this bet yaakov is?  He is not listed in the list of
> books that steinsaltz gives in the back of his gmara.
>
>
It's a sefer on haggados hashas by R' Yaakov Hubscher, who was a
contemporary of R' Dovid Tzvi Hoffmann and R' Meir Hildesheimer (son of R'
Azriel) in early 20th century Berlin.

The sefer is available on HebrewBooks.org
here<http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?sits=1&req=37110&st=%u05DC%u05DE%u05E2%u05E8%u05EA%u05DB%u05DD>
.


Joshua Meisner
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