This 1860 Talmud Set Can Go for $5,000 | Show & Tale: Inside Mizrahi Book Store, Part 4

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our series show and tale will take you inside some of the great libraries both public and private to explore books and treasures from jewish history so let me show you this this just showed up so it's a set of it's a full shutter shot published in vienna 1860. it's got a few things going for it off the bat it's uh the first time the custom surfers uh hugos were published on the shots this happens to be a you know people people right on the side of the gemaras but sometimes they forget that other people lived in other countries and had different languages so this one has a lot of hagais but they're in hungarian actually but the interesting thing about this edition is there's a husqvarna on one of the different climate sounds there's a really interesting hiscama he writes the standard thing that it's a mitzvot to have it in your house it's a bracha to bring it into your house but he writes that the rub of vienna elias horowitz was in charge of the printing and he's keeping an eye on it making sure that there's no halo shop is while they're printing even while they're printing so that's an odd thing to say but if you understand the background what happened was there was a previous shot published in vienna with the hagas of the vilna going for the first time in the early eighteen hundreds and the editor was yehuda benzav a brilliant linguist he braced but not sharmajavas in any way and the revelation suspected that he was working on chavez so he snuck in with a few of us tell me

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2. 0:30people right on the side of the gemaras but sometimes they forget that other people lived…
3. 1:00keeping an eye on it making sure that there's no halo shop is while they're printing…
4. 1:30them on shabbos to the printing press the legend is they caught him working on the…
5. 2:01out this is where the different climb is telling you this one is a shomer shabbos…
6. 2:31books are not sold by weight because they've got a few hundred pounds of worth here…
7. 3:01what's happening get over here come on come here okay and what he's recently found that's…
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