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Lot 58

Likutei Amarim Tanya – Yas, 1843 – Approbation by R. Yosef Landau Rabbi of Yas, Author of Birkat Yosef

Likutei Amarim – Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Yas (Iași): Notte Wasserman and his brother-in-law, Yisrael Ben Yaakov Segal, 1843.

With an enthusiastic approbation by R. Yosef Landau Rabbi of Yas, author of Responsa "Birkat Yosef".

[2], 92 ff. Approx.16.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Browning. Tears and worming, affecting text, some restored with paper (handwritten text replacement to leaves 91-92). Leaves trimmed, affecting text's margins in some places. Stamps. New binding. 

Mondshine, Sefer HaTanya, Bibliography, XV, p. 78-80.


Rabbi Landau's Approbation

Rabbi Yosef Landau was a disciple of the Ohev Yisrael of Apta, and after his death became a close disciple of Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin. A decade before this book was published, a fierce dispute developed between the Chabad community in Yas and the Chassidim of the Ohev Yisrael of Apta (then rabbi of the city), who strongly opposed the Chabad approach. In 1834, Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin visited the city and made peace between the two sides. This may be what led to the warm approbation accorded by R. Yosef Landau to the book by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

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