<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Meir Shinnar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chidekel@gmail.com" target="_blank">chidekel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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 ..<br>
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.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>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.<br>
<br>The sefer is available on HebrewBooks.org <a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?sits=1&req=37110&st=%u05DC%u05DE%u05E2%u05E8%u05EA%u05DB%u05DD">here</a>.<br><br><br>Joshua Meisner<br>