Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
Pelach HaRimon / Or Ne'erav (by Rabbi Moshe Cordovero) – Korets, 1786 – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar
Pelach HaRimon, summary of Pardes Rimonim by R. Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak), by R. Menachem Azariah (the Rama) of Fano, with commentary on the Avodah of Yom Kippur and Or Ne'erav by R. Moshe Cordovero. Korets: Johann Anton Krieger, [1786].
Three famous kabbalistic works of R. Moshe Cordovero printed together in Korets. At the beginning of the first book is a notable approbation from R. Yitzchak Eizik HaKohen, a leading disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch.
Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. On the title page appears his stamp: "Yoel Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Irshava and the region". We surmise that these stamps were made and stamped on the books at a later date than his rabbinic tenure in Irshava – see Kedem, Auction 99, Lot 185.
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), a leader of his generation, president of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem and leader of American Orthodox Jewry, one of the founding pillars of Chassidic Jewry after the Holocaust. Born in Sighet, he was the son of the Kedushat Yom Tov and grandson of the Yitav Lev, who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth for his sharpness and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. He settled in Satmar and taught Torah and Chassidut to an elite group of disciples and followers.
He served as rabbi of Irshava (1911-1915, 1922-1926), Karoly (Carei; from 1925), and Satmar (Satu Mare; from 1934), managing in each of these places a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. During the Holocaust, he was rescued by the famous Kastner Train, and after a journey through Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel, he reached the United States, where he reestablished what became one of the largest Chassidic groups in the world.
[1], 2-48 leaves; 36 leaves. 21 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Tears and worming, affecting text. Margins of title page and leaf 2 repaired with paper. Stamps. New leather binding.
Many kabbalistic works were printed in Korets, in the wake of the popularization of kabbalah spearheaded by the Chassidic movement.