Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
Hakdama V'Derech L'Etz Chaim – First Edition
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Hakdama V'Derech L'Etz Chaim, (Turn aside from bad and do good), ways to study Kabbalah by Rebbe Zvi Hirsh of Zhydachiv. Lvov, [1832]. First edition.
Old owner's signature: "Ya'akov ben Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Wolf".
[1], 25 leaves. 23.5 cm. High-quality paper, good-fair condition, minor moth damage. Old binding.
On title page, the date of printing is forged, in foreign writing that the book was printed in the printing press of Judith Rosanes 1804. The Hebrew date alluded to in the quote written in the book is 1830, but on the reverse side of the title page the author is mentioned four times with the addition of the Hebrew acronym Nun and Ayin (Nishmato Eden, added after the death of a person) and he died on the 11th of Tamuz 1831. [In 1833, the publisher printed another book by the same author called “Pri Kodesh Hillulim”. In the introduction he writes: "A whole year has passed since I have published the first "fruit" of the Rebbe… Hakdama and Derech L'Etz Chaim"].
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 183.
Old owner's signature: "Ya'akov ben Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Wolf".
[1], 25 leaves. 23.5 cm. High-quality paper, good-fair condition, minor moth damage. Old binding.
On title page, the date of printing is forged, in foreign writing that the book was printed in the printing press of Judith Rosanes 1804. The Hebrew date alluded to in the quote written in the book is 1830, but on the reverse side of the title page the author is mentioned four times with the addition of the Hebrew acronym Nun and Ayin (Nishmato Eden, added after the death of a person) and he died on the 11th of Tamuz 1831. [In 1833, the publisher printed another book by the same author called “Pri Kodesh Hillulim”. In the introduction he writes: "A whole year has passed since I have published the first "fruit" of the Rebbe… Hakdama and Derech L'Etz Chaim"].
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 183.
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