Auction 19 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Tikun Leil Shavuot - Copy of Radovitz Rebbes

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Seder Tikun Leil Shavuot and Leil Hoshana Rabbah, in large fine letters. Chernovtsy, 1849.
Title page contains two stamps of the Rebbe Rabbi "Moshe son of the righteous Rabbi of Kosov", "Moshe Hager of Seret". Many stamps of his son the Rebbe Rabbi "Yisrael Hager of Radovitz".
The Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Hager of Radauti (1840-1902) author of "Vayikach Moshe". Son of the Rebbe of Radovitz Rabbi Yosef Alter Hager (1820-1879, who was second son of the Rebbe Rabbi Chaim of Kosov and son-in-law of son of the Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Tzvi of Savran). In 1873 his father immigrated to the holy city of Safed and appointed him as successor in the city of Radauti. He, however, handed down the throne of leadership to his son Rabbi Yisrael and immigrated to his father in Safed. In 1897 he settled in Haifa and served as founder of the Ashkenazi settlement in Haifa. (For information about him see enclosed material, and in introduction of new edition of his book "Vayikach Moshe" published by Vizhnitz Yeshiva - Bnei Brak, 2000).
His son the Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael Hager (1876-1940), Rebbe and Rabbi in Radauti, immigrated to the USA in 1913 and established his Beit Midrash in New York.
192 leaves. 21 cm. High-quality paper, wide margins. Fair condition, stains, wear and moth damage. New binding.
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