Friday, February 17, 2006

Seforim Sale

I went to the YU Seforim Sale last night. I'm a book nerd, I love them, I spend too much money on them; if it weren't for some friends that wanted to leave (it was their 2nd trip this year) I would have spent all night browsing.

This is what I picked up:
  • Netivot Shalom al ha-Torah
  • Gray Matter by R' Chaim Jachter (published by Yashar books - looks really good)
  • Minchat Chinuch
  • Rav Hirsch Chumash (I love Rav Hirsch and this is the cheapest place to get him)
  • Two Gemaras - Sukkah and Sanhedrin (of couse I already own a copy of each but I purchased the Oz V'Hadar printing which is beautiful)
  • The Katz Hagadah - The beautiful one that could have been published by Disney. I've been meaning to pick this up for a while.
  • Biglal Avos by Shlomo and Eitan Katz CD - this one is excellent, I highly recommend it (besides the fact that I went to Yeshiva with Shlomo, he's got a new one coming out soon).
I also picked up a lot of stuff for some friends
  • Nechama Leibowitz on Torah
  • Midrash Rabbah
  • Chanukat HaTorah by Rav Avraham Yehoshua Heschel (A.J. Heschel's namesake)
  • A bunch of english Halacha books
I'm curious what the cashier thought when I came to check out with all these goodies. It was nothing compared to last year when a group of us spent over $3000 there.

PS: I saw a different printing of the Iggoros Moshe than I'm used to. I couldn't tell if it was the new printing that I've heard about so I didn't get it. Not that I had room in the car.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was just at the YU sale (yesterday) and there wasn't any great deals 90% of the seforim I was able to get cheaper at some brooklyn Seforim stores. (Moznaim Etc.)

4:46 PM
Natan said...

It's not always the prices that make the YU Seforim Sale attractive to me. Its the selection.

Also, I don't live in the NY area so I once a year make the trip to YU and spend a lot of money. Well, it's been two years in a row...guess I should take a break next year so I don't make a Chazakah.

7:42 PM

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