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Toafot Re'em – Livorno, 1761 – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar

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Toafot Re'em, on the Torah commentaries of Rashi and R. Eliyahu Mizrachi (Re'em), by R. Mordechai Baruch Carvalho. Livorno: Antonio Santini e compagni, 1761. First edition.


Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – on title page, stamp of the Rebbe from his tenure as Rabbi of Carei. With catalogue inscriptions from the period when the Rebbe's library was being ordered in the United States.
Signatures and inscriptions in Oriental script.


Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), one of the great leaders of his generation, president of the Edah HaCharedit and leader of American Orthodox Jewry, and a pillar of Chassidic Jewry after the Holocaust. He served as Rabbi of Irshava, Carei and Satmar, 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. After escaping the Holocaust he reached the United States, where he reestablished Satmar Chassidut, which is one of the largest and most important Chassidic communities in the world today.


[7], 2-167 leaves. 29 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, wear and tears. Worming. On title page and following leaf, open tears and paper repairs. Stamps. New binding.
Does not contain Part II of this book by the author's son, which was printed (with a divisional title page) as an appendix to the present book (thats book was also in the Rebbe's library; see: on 75, lot 56).

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Chassidut – Important Copies – Signatures and Stamps, Glosses and Dedications
Chassidut – Important Copies – Signatures and Stamps, Glosses and Dedications