Auction 62 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Likutei Amarim Tanya – Iași, 1843 / Malachei Kodesh – Jerusalem, 1862 / Otiot D'Rabbi Yitzchak – Dubno, 1804 – Signatures
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Three important books on Kabbalah and Chassidism, bound together:
· Tanya, Likutei Amarim, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Iași, 1843. Approbation by R. Meshulam Zusil of Anipoli and other approbations from the Slavita printing press. This is the first edition to contain the approbation of Rebbe Yosef Landau Rabbi of Iași.
Signatures of R. Yaakov Eliyahu Kahana-Shapira son of R. Yechiel Asher Shmuel (the father [d. 1857], was the rabbi of Żołynia and a prominent Torah scholar and Chassid. He was the father-in-law of R. Shlomo Leib of Łęczna. He immigrated to Eretz Israel at the beginning of the 1840s, with his sons R. Yaakov Eliyahu and R. Eliezer Natan, patriarchs of the Kahana-Shapira families in Jerusalem).
· Malachei Kodesh, piyyutim and supplications, words of reproof and the Baal Shem Tov's commentary on Psalm 107. Jerusalem: R. Yisrael Bak, 1862. Signature of R. "Moshe Leib Chaimson".
· Otiot D'Rabbi Yitzchak, Kabbalistic work arranged in alphabetical order, by R. Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi of Zhuravychi. Dubno, [1804]. Second edition. (Stefansky Chassidut, no. 38). Approbation by R. Betzalel Margolies, Rabbi of Ostroh. The title page bears an early signature of "Yisrael Mime---".
The author, R. Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi (1735-1783) was a kabbalist and a hidden righteous man, one of the 36 righteous people in the Baal Shem Tov's generation, and a teacher of R. Moshe Teitelbaum, the Yismach Moshe. He served as Shochet, Bodek and teacher in Zhuravychi, and the Baal Shem Tov would travel to him to confer with him on secret matters. He composed Raza MeHeimana (Lviv, 1791), Otiot D'Rabbi Yitzchak (Zhovkva,1801) and Yesod Yitzchak (Zhovkva, 1810).
[2], 92 leaves; [1], 2-20, [2], 25-28 leaves; [4], 39, 13 leaves. Approx. 16 cm. White and greenish paper. Condition varies. The first two books in fair condition. Wear and stains. Worming and detached leaves. The third book, Otiot D'Rabbi Yitzchak, in fair-poor condition. Worming affecting text. Wear and detached leaves. Stains. Tear to leaf 1 of the second pagination. Old binding, worn.
· Tanya, Likutei Amarim, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Iași, 1843. Approbation by R. Meshulam Zusil of Anipoli and other approbations from the Slavita printing press. This is the first edition to contain the approbation of Rebbe Yosef Landau Rabbi of Iași.
Signatures of R. Yaakov Eliyahu Kahana-Shapira son of R. Yechiel Asher Shmuel (the father [d. 1857], was the rabbi of Żołynia and a prominent Torah scholar and Chassid. He was the father-in-law of R. Shlomo Leib of Łęczna. He immigrated to Eretz Israel at the beginning of the 1840s, with his sons R. Yaakov Eliyahu and R. Eliezer Natan, patriarchs of the Kahana-Shapira families in Jerusalem).
· Malachei Kodesh, piyyutim and supplications, words of reproof and the Baal Shem Tov's commentary on Psalm 107. Jerusalem: R. Yisrael Bak, 1862. Signature of R. "Moshe Leib Chaimson".
· Otiot D'Rabbi Yitzchak, Kabbalistic work arranged in alphabetical order, by R. Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi of Zhuravychi. Dubno, [1804]. Second edition. (Stefansky Chassidut, no. 38). Approbation by R. Betzalel Margolies, Rabbi of Ostroh. The title page bears an early signature of "Yisrael Mime---".
The author, R. Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi (1735-1783) was a kabbalist and a hidden righteous man, one of the 36 righteous people in the Baal Shem Tov's generation, and a teacher of R. Moshe Teitelbaum, the Yismach Moshe. He served as Shochet, Bodek and teacher in Zhuravychi, and the Baal Shem Tov would travel to him to confer with him on secret matters. He composed Raza MeHeimana (Lviv, 1791), Otiot D'Rabbi Yitzchak (Zhovkva,1801) and Yesod Yitzchak (Zhovkva, 1810).
[2], 92 leaves; [1], 2-20, [2], 25-28 leaves; [4], 39, 13 leaves. Approx. 16 cm. White and greenish paper. Condition varies. The first two books in fair condition. Wear and stains. Worming and detached leaves. The third book, Otiot D'Rabbi Yitzchak, in fair-poor condition. Worming affecting text. Wear and detached leaves. Stains. Tear to leaf 1 of the second pagination. Old binding, worn.
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