ZIV, SIMCHA ZISSEL OF KELM. Chochmah U’Mussar. ...

ZIV, SIMCHA ZISSEL OF KELM. Chochmah U’Mussar. * WITH: Yerucham Levovitz. (Ma’amarim).

Two volumes. Typed mimeographed sheets (printed on recto only).

* Vol. I: ff. 133 (f.1 appears following f. 133). Bound with discourses by R. Yerucham Levovitz (n.d.) ff. 174, 30 (lacking f. 29).

* Vol. II: Discourses by R. Yerucham Levovitz delivered 1928-30, plus selection from other occasions. ff. 201, 26, (8).

Some wear. Contemporary boards, shaken. Folio.
(Mir, 1928-30).

    First volume contains ethical discourses by R. Simcha Zissel of Kelm (1824-98) affectionately known as the “Alter of Kelm, ” one of the principle disciples of R. Yisroel Salanter. These discourses were delivered in Kelm, as well as sent to his son and disciples, including R. Baruch Marcus.

    R. Yerucham Levovitz, a student of the Alter of Kelm, sought to publish these writings under the title Chochmah U’Mussar and they were indeed finally issued in full by his son, R. Simcha Zissel Levovitz in New York in 1957.

    The present mimeographed version appears to contain a fuller rendering of the text; e.g. see f. 86a “Ma’amar Tachlith HaChochma” with a lengthy addendum that does not appear in the published version (Vol. I, p. 288).

    The second volume contains classical lectures on Mussar by Yerucham Levovitz (1873-1936) the famed Mashgiach of the Mirrer Yeshiva as recorded by disciples. Most appear here, as delivered, in the original Yiddish and thus contain a different nuance than the multi-volume published version Da’ath Chochmah U’Mussar (1969) that was translated into Hebrew.