Auction 89 - Rare and Important Items
Kaftor VaFerach – By Rabbi Eshtori HaParchi – First Edition – Venice, 1548 – Important Ownership – Signature of R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller Rabbi of Bonyhád – Stamps of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar
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Kaftor VaFerach, about Eretz Israel and the laws pertaining to it, by R. Eshtori HaParchi. [Venice: Meir son of Jacob Parenzo, 1548?]. First edition. Copy lacking title page.
First rabbinic study of Eretz Israel and its borders. R. Eshtori son of R. Moshe HaParchi, a Spanish and Provençal Torah scholar in the times of the Ramban, who lived in and toured Eretz Israel for seven years, studied its sites and clarified its laws. This work is the primary source for those researching the borders of Eretz Israel according to the Torah, and for the study of the commandments pertaining to the land.
Important ownership – from the library of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. On the front endpapers, stamps from his tenure as rabbi of Karoly (Carei). Many handwritten inscriptions on the endpapers, including inscriptions handwritten and signed by R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller, author of Tiv Gittin, rabbi of Bonyhád and Ungvar (Uzhhorod).
The book contains several glosses in early Ashkenazic-Italian script. Many signatures of "Leib Eisenstadt", and several glosses in his handwriting (two of them are signed – pp. 80b and 422b). The endpapers contain various inscriptions signed by R. Leib Eisenstadt, and signed by R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller: Inscription by R. Leib Eisenstadt from Adar 1826 in Vienna, regarding lending the book to the rabbi of Eisenstadt, with a request to return it with a reliable messenger before the end of the summer. Another inscription from Vienna, 18th Elul 1828, regarding lending the book for three months to the rabbi of Bonyhád. Followed by an inscription handwritten and signed by R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller, confirming that he received the book on the 26th Elul 1828. An additional inscription handwritten by R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller, dated Monday 24th Iyar 1834 in Alt-Ofen, attesting that he received the book from the heirs of the above-mentioned person (Ishim BiTeshuvot HaChatam Sofer, p. 349, states that R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller moved from Ungvar to Alt-Ofen in the middle of 1834 – he was apparently already there in Iyar).
R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller (1776-1835, Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Galicia, II, pp. 665-671), leading Hungarian rabbi, known as "R. Hirsh Charif" for his brilliance and perspicacity. He served as rabbi of Brigel, Galicia, and later as prominent yeshiva dean in Brody. He was compelled to flee the city after he was informed upon, reached Hungary, and served as rabbi of Bonyhád, Ungvar, and Alt-Ofen (Óbuda). He edified prominent disciples, including Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh of Liska and R. Shlomo Ganzfried author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. He authored Chiddushei Tiv Gittin and other works.
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), a leader of his generation, president of the Edah HaChareidit 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 Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov, and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, 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 as a leading Torah scholar, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. After his marriage to the daughter of Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Polaniec, he settled in Satmar and taught Torah and Chassidut to an elite group of disciples and followers. He served as rabbi of Irshava, 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 through the famous Kastner Train, and after a journey through Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel, he reached the United States, where he established the largest Chassidic group in the world.
2-24, 24-95, 95-109, 200-209, 300-309, 400-444, 444-447, [2] leaves. Lacking title page. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Marginal tears, open tears and wear. Marginal paper repairs to several leaves. Stamps, signatures and inscriptions by various writers. New leather binding.
Printer's colophon on final leaf. Date of printing according to A.M. Habermann, The Parenzo Printers in Venice, Aresheth, I, 1959, p. 69, no. 6.
First rabbinic study of Eretz Israel and its borders. R. Eshtori son of R. Moshe HaParchi, a Spanish and Provençal Torah scholar in the times of the Ramban, who lived in and toured Eretz Israel for seven years, studied its sites and clarified its laws. This work is the primary source for those researching the borders of Eretz Israel according to the Torah, and for the study of the commandments pertaining to the land.
Important ownership – from the library of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. On the front endpapers, stamps from his tenure as rabbi of Karoly (Carei). Many handwritten inscriptions on the endpapers, including inscriptions handwritten and signed by R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller, author of Tiv Gittin, rabbi of Bonyhád and Ungvar (Uzhhorod).
The book contains several glosses in early Ashkenazic-Italian script. Many signatures of "Leib Eisenstadt", and several glosses in his handwriting (two of them are signed – pp. 80b and 422b). The endpapers contain various inscriptions signed by R. Leib Eisenstadt, and signed by R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller: Inscription by R. Leib Eisenstadt from Adar 1826 in Vienna, regarding lending the book to the rabbi of Eisenstadt, with a request to return it with a reliable messenger before the end of the summer. Another inscription from Vienna, 18th Elul 1828, regarding lending the book for three months to the rabbi of Bonyhád. Followed by an inscription handwritten and signed by R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller, confirming that he received the book on the 26th Elul 1828. An additional inscription handwritten by R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller, dated Monday 24th Iyar 1834 in Alt-Ofen, attesting that he received the book from the heirs of the above-mentioned person (Ishim BiTeshuvot HaChatam Sofer, p. 349, states that R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller moved from Ungvar to Alt-Ofen in the middle of 1834 – he was apparently already there in Iyar).
R. Tzvi Hirsh Heller (1776-1835, Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Galicia, II, pp. 665-671), leading Hungarian rabbi, known as "R. Hirsh Charif" for his brilliance and perspicacity. He served as rabbi of Brigel, Galicia, and later as prominent yeshiva dean in Brody. He was compelled to flee the city after he was informed upon, reached Hungary, and served as rabbi of Bonyhád, Ungvar, and Alt-Ofen (Óbuda). He edified prominent disciples, including Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh of Liska and R. Shlomo Ganzfried author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. He authored Chiddushei Tiv Gittin and other works.
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), a leader of his generation, president of the Edah HaChareidit 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 Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov, and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, 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 as a leading Torah scholar, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. After his marriage to the daughter of Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Polaniec, he settled in Satmar and taught Torah and Chassidut to an elite group of disciples and followers. He served as rabbi of Irshava, 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 through the famous Kastner Train, and after a journey through Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel, he reached the United States, where he established the largest Chassidic group in the world.
2-24, 24-95, 95-109, 200-209, 300-309, 400-444, 444-447, [2] leaves. Lacking title page. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Marginal tears, open tears and wear. Marginal paper repairs to several leaves. Stamps, signatures and inscriptions by various writers. New leather binding.
Printer's colophon on final leaf. Date of printing according to A.M. Habermann, The Parenzo Printers in Venice, Aresheth, I, 1959, p. 69, no. 6.
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