Auction 77 - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial

Chumashim Vayikra and Bamidbar – With the Be'er Mayim Chaim Commentary – Sudylkiv, 1820 – First Edition

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Chumashim Vayikra and Bamidbar, with Targum Onkelos, Rashi and Baal HaTurim commentaries, and with the Be'er Mayim Chaim commentary, by Rebbe Chaim Thirer of Czernowitz (Chernivtsi). Sudylkiv, [1820 – regarding the exact places and years of printing, see below]. First edition. Two volumes.
Be'er Mayim Chaim is one of the most prominent classic books of Chassidic thought.
Two volumes. Vayikra and Shir HaShirim: [1], 2-120; 8; 10 leaves. Bamidbar and Megillat Ruth: incomplete copy. 10-16, 19-161 leaves. Lacking 29 leaves: 1-9, 162-181 (first nine leaves and 20 final leaves). 21 cm. Bluish paper. Condition varies. Vayikra volume in good-fair condition. Bamidbar volume in fair-poor condition. Stains. Worming and minor tears to Vayikra volume, repaired with paper. Significant worming to many leaves in Bamidbar volume, with significant damage to text. Leaves trimmed affecting headings on some pages in Vayikra volume. Handwritten inscriptions in Vayikra volume. New bindings.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 216.
This edition is known as the Mohyliv 1820 edition, since that is what appears in the imprint of all five title pages. However, after careful examination, it seems that the imprint was altered to mislead the censor, and in fact the volume of Shemot was printed first, in Mohyliv, no later than Iyar 1818 and the rest of the volumes were printed in Sudylkiv after 1825. See Kedem catalog 72, item 51
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