HaPeless is a monthly rabbinical publication on Torah, Avodah and Gemilut Chasadim, edited by Rabbi Eliyahu Akiva Rabinowitz from Poltava. Berlin, 1901-1905.
Four volumes: first, second, third and fifth years, twelve booklets per volume. (covers and inner title pages missing on the first volume).
Numerous essays by the greatest Rabbis of that generation, some of whom signed with their pseudonym.
Rabbi Eliyahu Akiva Rabinowitz, editor, (1862-1917, Otzar HaRabbanim 2305), was the son of Rabbi David Ber Rabinowitz, a famous genius Torah scholar, who worked a lot towards the strengthening of Judaism, and was the rabbi of Piantitzi, Kanishin and Poltova. Among the founders of “Agudat Israel” and founder of the “Ha-Modia” newspaper.
768; 774; 768; 768 pages, 22.5 cm. Varying booklets condition in the volumes. Moth damage. Homogeneous cloth bindings, second volume’s spine is detached.
Rare. Doesn’t appear on the Bibliography Institute CD.
From Dr. Israel Mehlman’s private collection.