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Passover Haggadah – Bizat Mitzrayim – Jerusalem, 1865 – Printed by Rabbi Yisrael Bak

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Passover Haggadah with commentary Bizat Mitzrayim by R. Akiva, Rabbi of Barysaw. Jerusalem: R. Yisrael Bak, 1865.


Illustration of the Machpelah cave on verso of title page.
Does not contain two last leaves with songs at the end of the Haggadah, commentary on Chad Gadya by the Vilna Gaon and supercommentary by R. Shlomo of Talachyn.
Stamps on title page of the famous kabbalist R. "Aharon Avraham Slotky" (1883-1976), a close disciple of R. Chaim Shaul HaKohen Dweck and R. Alfandari, a leading Jerusalem kabbalist and dean of the Shaar HaShamayim yeshiva and later of the Ahavat Shalom kabbalistic yeshiva.


[1], 3-26, [2] leaves. Missing two final leaves. 21 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Wear. Tears, including open tears to margins of title page and to additional leaves, slightly affecting text, repaired with paper filling. Light worming, affecting text. New binding.


Yaari 932; Otzar HaHaggadot 1257; Sh. Halevy no. 110.

Early Hebrew Books and Broadsides Printed in Jerusalem
Early Hebrew Books and Broadsides Printed in Jerusalem