Auction 046 Special Chabad Auction in Honor of 11th Nisan - Birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and in Honor of Pesach
Hilchot Rav Alfas – Two Parts – Pressburg, 1836 – With Kuntres "Hagaot VeHearot" on the Alfasi, by the Nimukei Shazbani, and Biur Mordechai to Halachot Ketanot – Handwritten Glosses – Portrait of the Rif
Hilchot Rav Alfas. Pressburg: Anton Schmidt, 1836. Two parts in one volume; separate title page to each part; parts of title pages printed in red ink.
Large elegant wide-margined volume; thick paper. Frontispiece portrait (imaginary) of R. Yitzchak Alfasi – the Rif. Approbations by the Chatam Sofer, Rabbi Akiva Eiger and the Yismach Moshe. Handwritten Glosses.
Between leaves 75-76, before "Hilchot Tzitzit", is bound a part of "Hagaot VeHearot" on the Alfasi, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman Schneersohn, author of the "Nimukei Shazbani". Jerusalem: Rabbi Yisrael Bak, [1865]. With the author's inked-stamp on the margins of the first page. See: Shoshana Halevi, Sifrei Yerushalayim HaRishhonim, no. 111, p. 50 (Hebrew).
13 leaves after leaf [86] contain "Beur Mordechai", by Rabbi Mordecai Bennet; these leaves are not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (which raises the possibility that they were never printed at all).
Two parts in one volume: * Part I: [6], 3-86; [2], 2-13; [2], 103 ff. + [1] plate (portrait of the Rif). * Kuntres Hagaot veHearot (bound between leaves 75-76): 2 ff. (lacking two additional leaves) * Part II: [3], 2-89, [1], 90-132, [1] ff.
Approx. 43 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Minor creases. Minor marginal tears to some leaves. Stamp to margin of title page of part I. Original leather binding (with new spine). Defects to bindings.
Rabbi Shneur Zalman son of Rabbi Nachum Yosef.Schneerson (ca. 1828-1882), the "Nimukei Shazbani". Third generation to the Alter Rebbe, the Baal HaTanya – eldest son to Rebbetzin Sarah Rivka, eldest daughter of Rabbi Moshe, the son of the Alter Rebbe. Born in Lubavitch, the "Nimukei Shazbani" emigrated to Hebron alongside Rebbetzin Menucha Rochel Slonim.
Rabbi Schneur Zalman was a prominent Chassid of his relative, the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch. An important member of the Chabad community of Jerusalem, Rabbi Schneur Zalman served as Shadar (fund raising emissary) and as the manager of Colel Chabad, and was a Torah scholar and author, and a passionate collector of books and manuscripts. Rabbi Shneur Zalman eventually purchased the library of the Chida, and published several ancient manuscripts found in it. He made his living as a proofreader at R. Moshe Beck's famous Jerusalem printing house, and published several books, among them "Sefer Nimukei Shazbani", glosses and commentary on Rabbi Alfasi, and more.