Lot 144
Amudei Gola – Liadi, 1805 – Approbation of Ba'al HaTanya
Amudei Gola, Sefer Mitzvot Katan (Smak) by Rabbi Yizchak of Corbeil. Liadi, [1805].
Approbations by Rebbe Shneur Zalman son of Rabbi Baruch of Liadi (Ba'al HaTanya) and Rabbi Chanoch Henich Shik of Shklov.
On the page before the title page, owner's handwritten inscription from the time of printing: "Belongs to the important Rabbi Menachem Nachum". Stamps of "Rabbi Yehuda Estrin – Shchedrin Minsk district" [a Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi, founder of Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva branch in his city in 1909 – see attached material].
Handwritten gloss on page 61b.
1-61, 63-117, [2] leaves. 22 cm. Blue and green paper. Fair condition, stains, major ink stain on margins of last 30 leaves. Library stamps. Original leather cover, worn and damaged.
The only book printed in Liadi, city of the Ba'al HaTanya. See about this printing press, Friedberg, The History of Hebrew Printing in Poland, page 137 (material attached).
