Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
Responsa of the Baal HaTanya – Zhitomir, 1857 – Exceptionally Wide Margins / Bound with Other Books
Opening: $500
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium
Book of responsa by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Baal HaTanya. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1857.
Exceptional copy. Printed on high-quality paper, with particularly wide margins. Instead of the foreword on p. 3, an illustration was printed, depicting the Tablets of Law on Mt. Sinai (such copy is recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, listing 000181206).
The responsa of the Baal HaTanya were first published in his Shulchan Aruch edition, printed in Zhitomir 1847, and later in Zhitomir 1857. In both editions, the responsa were printed both as independent volumes, and as part of the Shulchan Aruch.
In the foreword to the responsa, R. Chaim Avraham, son of the Baal HaTanya, describes the printing of the responsa book as an independent volume: "In his lifetime, many approached him with various questions… he responded to each one with his pleasant letters, clarifying the Halacha. In order to benefit the public who already possess a Shulchan Aruch… I decided to publish the responsa on their own as well".
Bound with three other books (at the beginning of the volume):
• Sifri, halachic midrash on the Books of Bamidbar and Devarim, with the notes of R. Yosef Shaul Nathansohn. Lviv, 1866. • Responsa of the Ran, by Rabbenu Nissim Gerondi. Lviv, 1860. • Seder HaYom, laws, ethics and conduct, by R. Moshe ben Machir. Lviv, 1875.
Sifri: [2], 2-82 leaves. Responsa of the Ran: [38] leaves. Seder HaYom: 38 leaves. Responsa of the Baal HaTanya: 42 leaves. Approx. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Wear and stains. Signatures and various inscriptions. Old binding, partially detached. Torn and damaged leather spine.
Exceptional copy. Printed on high-quality paper, with particularly wide margins. Instead of the foreword on p. 3, an illustration was printed, depicting the Tablets of Law on Mt. Sinai (such copy is recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, listing 000181206).
The responsa of the Baal HaTanya were first published in his Shulchan Aruch edition, printed in Zhitomir 1847, and later in Zhitomir 1857. In both editions, the responsa were printed both as independent volumes, and as part of the Shulchan Aruch.
In the foreword to the responsa, R. Chaim Avraham, son of the Baal HaTanya, describes the printing of the responsa book as an independent volume: "In his lifetime, many approached him with various questions… he responded to each one with his pleasant letters, clarifying the Halacha. In order to benefit the public who already possess a Shulchan Aruch… I decided to publish the responsa on their own as well".
Bound with three other books (at the beginning of the volume):
• Sifri, halachic midrash on the Books of Bamidbar and Devarim, with the notes of R. Yosef Shaul Nathansohn. Lviv, 1866. • Responsa of the Ran, by Rabbenu Nissim Gerondi. Lviv, 1860. • Seder HaYom, laws, ethics and conduct, by R. Moshe ben Machir. Lviv, 1875.
Sifri: [2], 2-82 leaves. Responsa of the Ran: [38] leaves. Seder HaYom: 38 leaves. Responsa of the Baal HaTanya: 42 leaves. Approx. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Wear and stains. Signatures and various inscriptions. Old binding, partially detached. Torn and damaged leather spine.
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