I was using the word sefer as any written work that teaches Torah. A novel or collection of stories, whether fiction or non-fiction is a book. Anything with Torah content is a sefer. I would not take a sefer-book into the bathroom, for example, Shira Smiles’ work, but I would a novel-book. Some sefarim are more intensive than others, some are light reading, some are lomdus. A compilation of nice thoughts on the Parsha may not be as choshuv, as say, Ramban al HaTorah, but it’s still Torah.
I was wondering how you define a sefer- a volume in Hebrew? Part of Tanach or Talmud? Commentaries by Rishonim? Halachic discourses? Mussar works? Does it have to be bound in leather to be a sefer? Or does the level of the author determine if it is a sefer?
By the way, Pachad Yitzchak, which consists of ma’amarim given by R’ Hutner, Z”L, was mostly edited/compiled by his daughter, Reb. Bruriah David, although you will not find her name on the sefer (or is it book?)
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