Important and revolutionary: Sod HaOsher. First edition, Oakland (California), 1937.

Important and revolutionary: Sod HaOsher. First edition, Oakland (California), 1937.
“The Secret of Happiness: How to Enjoy Life…through Torah and Mitzvot…a life of happiness and true success, is for those who call L’Shabbat Oneg…because that is the secret to the happiness and existence of the Jewish people…” by Rabbi David Miller, author of the propagandist/revolutionary works: Mikveh Yisrael and Sod Netzach Yisrael. [1], 510 pages. At the beginning is the author’s portrait.

This book was published by the author because he saw his great success in his previous work on purification and sanctification of Jewish men and women. Therefore he decided to credit his people "to the greatest principle in the roots of Judaism and the eternal secret of its existence, which is the observance of Shabbat in all its branches." The work itself is in English but also has a title page and introduction in Hebrew, in which he explains what led to this composition: "The Sabbath requires not only keeping its place but also reminding us to sanctify it and to enjoy it... Although many did their best to instruct the young people of Israel in the laws of the Sabbath and its laws, but few of them stood by the nature of loving the Sabbath in its pleasure... delight in the brushing of the excess soul and to taste a kind of sublime spiritual pleasure..." and logically claims that without this the observance of the Sabbath is also in doubt.

An opening statement by Rabbi Dov Druckman, Rabbi of Congregation Zichron Ephraim, New York, and President of Agudat Am Yisrael Tomchei Shabbat, in which he highly praises the author and his composition from a philosophical and intellectual-scientific point of view. In addition, there appears at the bottom of the title page, in Yiddish, in a free translation, that ‘this book cannot be purchased and it will be given free of charge to those who wish to feel the happiness/goodness in life through the holiness of our Torah and its mitzvot and especially Shabbat observance.’

Printed bindings on both sides in Hebrew and English. The author’s portrait is detached, overall good condition.