## Mevo HaShearim, Title Page

###### Mevo HaShearim, Title Page 1
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ב״ה.

**Entrance to the gates, trans. and annot. by Jon Kelsen, 2019:**
*With God’s help.*


###### Mevo HaShearim, Title Page 2
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הורני ד׳ דרכך, אהלך באמתך, יחד לבבי ליראה שמך.

**Entrance to the gates, trans. and annot. by Jon Kelsen, 2019:**
*Show me your ways, O Lord, and I shall walk in Your truth. Designate my heart to fear Your name.*¹⁵⁹

footnotes:
¹⁵⁹ Psalm 86:11.


###### Mevo HaShearim, Title Page 3
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ספר חובת האברכים שער הא׳, והוא מבוא השערים שבספר הזה

**Entrance to the gates, trans. and annot. by Jon Kelsen, 2019:**
*This is the book Hovat haAvreikhim. Section One, which is the introduction to this book, is called*
*Entrance to the Gates [Mevo haShearim].*


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ספר הזה, חלק הג׳ של הקונטרס חובת התלמידים והכשרת האברכים הוא, ורק מי שעבר עליהם כולם, יוכל לעיין גם בזה.

**Entrance to the gates, trans. and annot. by Jon Kelsen, 2019:**
*This book is the third section of the work Hovat haTalmidim and Hakhsharat haAvreikhim,*¹⁶⁰), indicating the extent to which he conceives of them as an integrated whole.*and only one who has read those may read this book.*

footnotes:
¹⁶⁰ Interestingly, R. Shapiro refers to all three works as one work (kuntres


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קלונמוס קלמיש בהה״ק מוהר״א זצוקלל״ה מגראדזיסק

**Entrance to the gates, trans. and annot. by Jon Kelsen, 2019:**
Kalonymous Kalmish¹⁶¹—son of the holy rabbi, our master and teacher R. Elimelekh of Grodzisk—

footnotes:
¹⁶¹ A diminutive of Kalman.


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אב״ד פיאסצנא

**Entrance to the gates, trans. and annot. by Jon Kelsen, 2019:**
*Av Beit Din*¹⁶² of Piacezno.

footnotes:
¹⁶² Head of the rabbinical court. These last words were crossed out in the manuscript, apparently by R. Shapiro when editing the work while he was in the Warsaw Ghetto and the court and community in Piacezno was no longer extant. See Figure C, below, and Reiser, 2017, 52.