Shenei Luchot HaBrit (Shelah), by R. Yeshaya HaLevi Horowitz. Amsterdam: Immanual son of Joseph Athias, 1698. Engraved title page (by Avraham son of Yaakov HaGer).
Shenei Luchot HaBrit contains many halachic novellae, kabbalistic principles, homiletics and ethics, and incorporates all realms of the Torah. The book was received with awe throughout the Jewish world, and its teachings are quoted in the books of leading poskim and kabbalists. Many renowned Chassidic leaders were extraordinarily devoted to the study of the books of the Shelah.
This edition of the Shelah was printed in Amsterdam in 1698, birth year of the Baal Shem Tov, and Chassidic lore ties these two events.
Stamps (very faded) on second title page of Rebbe Pinchas Hager of Borşa, and stamp of his son Rebbe Chaim Ben Tzion Hager (another of his stamps on following leaf). Stamps of the Vizhnitz Beit Midrash in Shotz.
Rebbe Pinchas Hager of Borşa (d. 1941), son of Rebbe Baruch Hager of Vizhnitz, renowned as a tremendous Torah scholar, wonder-worker and philanthropist.
His son, Rebbe Chaim Ben Tzion Hager, succeeded his father as rebbe, perished in the Holocaust in 1944.
Several brief handwritten glosses, by different writers.
[4], 422; 44 leaves. Lacking [12] leaves of indexes at end of book. Approx. 30 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark stains and dampstains. First title page damaged – tear across leaf (repaired); large, marginal open tears, affecting engraving, repaired with paper (illustration completed by hand); minor stains and traces of tape. Open tears to second title page and other leaves. Worming, slightly affecting text. Detached leaf. Stamps. New leather and cloth binding, slipcased.

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