[Heb-NACO] FW: Meaning of these rashe tevot

Wed Oct 9 10:42:51 EDT 2013

Good morning folks:

While this is not as full as it could be, it serves as a good supplement to
Otsar rashe tevot:

Steinsaltz, Adin.
Rashe tevot ṿe-ḳitsurim be-sifrut ha-Ḥasidut ṿeha-Ḳabalah / me-et
ʻAdin Shṭainzalts.
Tel-Aviv : Sifriyati, [1968?]
47 p. ; 21 cm.

Happy reading

B

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Manuel Frau-Cortes <nfrau at umd.edu> wrote:

>  I am not aware of any such a source, but the Encyc. Judaica (online
> version better) and sometimes Wikipedia are useful to find authors in
> connection with their works. I would say that the rule of thumb is to apply
> some logic. People only use abbreviations were they are confident that the
> reader will understand them. Of course, the more you deal with this kind of
> literature, the more familiar you get with the abbreviations. In any case,
> there are some logical shortcuts: if your title page mentions the Tur,
> chances are that all the other abbreviations are traditional commentaries
> to the Tur. Same if your title page mentions Shulhan Arukh, a tractate of
> the Talmud, a book of the Tanakh. There are a limited number of famous
> commentaries that most readers would know and expect. You could google and
> fnd a list of their names or get the title page of a Vilna edition, for
> instance, where the commentaries and their authors are spelled out.****
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> In other cases, the title page will mention and author and then “ba’al
> [some abbreviation]”. That would be the work by which the author is best
> known. Worse case scenario, google the whole abbreviation and see how it’s
> used in other contexts.****
>
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> I’d say you learn with experience. Just have fun with it! And of course
> you can always write to this list J****
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> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes*
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> *From:* heb-naco-bounces+nfrau=umd.edu at lists.service.ohio-state.edu[mailto:
> heb-naco-bounces+nfrau=umd.edu at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] *On Behalf
> Of *Judith Zupnick
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 08, 2013 7:00 PM
> *To:* Hebrew Name Authority Funnel
> *Subject:* Re: [Heb-NACO] FW: Meaning of these rashe tevot****
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> I have Otsar Rashe Tevot in print form and am also familiar with the
> Princeton Hebrew abbreviations Web site. I am more interested now in a
> guide to sefarim, with their associated authors, such as came up in
> abbreviations on the title page of the book that I sent. Is there any
> source that gives rabbinic authors and their books (an added plus would be
> if the abbreviations were given, as well). The Otsa Rashe Tevot, as you
> pointed out, gives several alternatives. It is not always comprehensive nor
> does it always give names of books.
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> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:13:16 -0400
> From: jnof at upenn.edu
> To: heb-naco at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: [Heb-NACO] FW: Meaning of these rashe tevot****
>
> The classic work, Otsar rashe tevot, has been digitized and is online at
> http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/tohen.asp?id=9.  It would give several
> options of which meaning is intended, but you'd need to figure out based on
> context which of the given options the appropriate rashe tevot are.
> Another source is Princeton's site of Hebrew cataloging tools,
> http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/hebrew/hebrewtoc.html,
> which include Hebrew Abbreviations.  They spell out in romanized form what
> the rashe tevot are, but again, do not include "meaning" or "authorship".
> That would require more research on your part.  Wikipedia can be a good
> first stop once you know what the spelled out form is (presuming you
> romanize it properly, c.f. Rama vs. Rema:  the correct form is the latter;
> the former is a Vishnu god in Hinduism).
>
> And of course, your colleagues are also an excellent reference :-) .
>
> Best wishes and happy learning, Jasmin
>
> On 10/7/2013 6:48 PM, Judith Zupnick wrote:****
>
>  Thanks! Is there any guide, list or resource to rabbinic literature that
> would tell the meaning of the rashe tevot and the authorship, for future
> reference?
>  ****
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> From: nfrau at umd.edu
> To: heb-naco at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 20:13:12 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Heb-NACO] FW: Meaning of these rashe tevot****
>
> Hi,****
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>  ****
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> These are all commentaries printed to the Tur or Shulhan Arukh: the Tur
> itself, Bet Yosef (written by Yosef Caro). The Rama is Moshe Isserles,
> another of the commentators, who wrote Darkhe Mosheh. Then you have Ture
> Zahav (David Segal) and Magen Avraham (Avraham Gombiner).****
>
>  ****
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> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes*****
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>  ****
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> *From:* heb-naco-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [
> mailto:heb-naco-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu<heb-naco-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>]
> *On Behalf Of *Judith Zupnick
> *Sent:* Monday, October 07, 2013 11:41 AM
> *To:* heb-naco at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
> *Subject:* [Heb-NACO] FW: Meaning of these rashe tevot****
>
>  ****
>
>
> Does anyone know what all the rashe tevot on the title page in this
> attachment stand for, e.g. "Bet-Yud", etc.? Are these names of books? If
> so, what books? Are they all written by Jacob ben Asher?
> Thanks****
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> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:32:25 -0400
> Subject: Fwd: Scan
> From: jez219 at nyu.edu
> To: judiezup at msn.com****
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> Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM
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> To: Judith Zupnick <jez219 at nyu.edu>
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