Online Auction 44 - Chabad
A Special Chabad Auction on the Occasion of "Yom HaBahir", Yud (the 10th of) Shevat – Day of Passing of the Rebbe Rayatz, and Day of the Ascendancy to Leadership of the Lubavitcher Rebbe"
Sefer Maggid Devarav LeYaakov, Likutei Amarim, by the Maggid Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch (Mezhirichi). [Lviv: 1797].
Title page states: "the book Maggid Devarav LeYaakov [last letters of the book's name are emphasized on the title page, alluding to the name of the author, R. Dov], selected discourses… pure sayings... hearken to the words of the king... every month and every week... from the great and holy Torah scholar.... R. Dov Ber, who was a preacher in Mezeritch and other communities…".
The book was brought to print by R. Shlomo of Lutsk (author of Divrat Shlomo), close disciple and relative of the Maggid of Mezeritch. R. Shlomo wrote two comprehensive forewords to the book, which are renowned in the Chassidic world. The first portrays the elevated stature of his teachers, the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezeritch, the Divine Inspiration which rested upon them and the lofty levels they reached.
4, [1], 4-31 ff. Approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Open marginal tears to title page and few other pages, not affecting text, repaired with paper. Worming, with minor damage to text in some places. Library stamps. Inscriptions. New leather binding.
Erroneous date on title page; date of publication according to the "Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960".
PLEASE NOTE: Item's description was shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to Hebrew text.
Amudei Gola, Sefer Mitzvot Katan (Semak) by R. Yitzchak (Isaac) of Corbeil. Liadi: Baruch, Yitzchak and Moshe Segal, [1805].
Approbations by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya, and R. Chanoch Henich Shick of Shklov. This is one of the few approbations of the Ba'al HaTanya to ever be printed.
This is the only Hebrew book printed in Liadi, Ba'al HaTanya's home town. More about the Liadi printing house, see: Friedberg, Toldot HaDfus HaIvri B'Polania [History of Jewish Printing in Poland], p. 137.
Inked stamp by R. "Yehuda Leib Estrin - Shchedrin, Minsk Governorate". Handwritten glosses; long gloss on leaf 61/2. R. Yehuda Leib Estrin, Av Beit Din Shchedrin (ca. 1847- 1912); among the Chassidim of the "Tzemach Tzedek", the Rebbe Maharash and the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch. Following the instructions of the Rebbe Rashab, he established ca. 1909 a branch of the Tomchei Tmimim Yeshivah in his home town of Shchedrin. R. Estrin stood in close contact with Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini, author of the "Sede Chemed", corresponding with him on various Halachic matters. His unpublished manuscript, "Afik Yehuda", was lost during WWII. Some of his Torah novellae and halachic responsa were printed in several Responsa collections, in the "Sede Chemed" books, and in issues of the periodical "HaModia", published in Poltava.
117, 116-117 ff. Approx. 20 cm. Blue and greenish paper. Good-fair condition. Stains, including large dampstains and dark stains, and severe ink stains to some 30 ff. at the end of the volume. Wear. Minor tears and worming. Leaves unevenly trimmed. Stamps and inscriptions. New binding.
PLEASE NOTE: Item's description was shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to Hebrew text.
Torah Or, Vol. I – Chassidic essays on Bereshit and Shemot, Chanukah and Purim, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya. Kopust (Kopys): Shabtai ben Simeon [Slavin], 1836. First edition. Two title pages; parts of title pages printed in red ink.
Gloss on leaf 28/2. Ownership inscriptions to title page: "Shaul Ginzburg of Mir"; "Shaul son of R. A. Sender Ginzburg of Kopust, in Mir" (Hebrew).
R. Shaul son of Alexander Sender Ginzburg (ca. 1785-1865), disciple of Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Baal HaTanya and Shulchan Aruch, Great-grandfather of Zalman Shazar, the State of Israel's 3rd president (Shazar's mother, Sarah, was the daughter of R. Moshe Ginzburg of Mir (ca. 1820-1912), son of R. Shaul Ginzburg of Kopust-Mir). According to his great-grandson Shazar, R. Ginzburg followed the instructions of his Rabbi the Baal HaTanya, and established the first Chassidic Minyan in the city of Mir, a stronghold of the Misnagdim (see [Hebrew]: Sefer Mir, Jerusalem 1963, pp. 263-264; Nassi and Chassid, Kfar Chabad, 1999; p. 31; Entsiklopedyah le-halutse ha-yishuv u-vonav, vol. 3, p. 1111).
Sefer Torah Or is a fundamental work of Chassidut Cahabd. It was written from teachings heard directly from Baal HaTanya by his brother, R. Yehuda Leib of Janowiec, author of "She'erit Yehuda", and was edited by his disciple and grandson, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch. It was among the last Jewish books to be printed in Tsarist Russia before all Jewish printing houses were shut down by the authorities in 1836 ("the printing decree"), the result of a malicious Maskilic "informing". From then on, only two printing houses were allowed to operate, in Vilna and Zhitomir, both under strict supervision by the Tsarist government.
[1], 167, [1] ff. Approx. 21 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Severe ink stains to upper margins of title page and additional leaves. Open tears and worming to some leaves, affecting text, repaired with tape. Tape reinforcement to title page margins. Stamps and inscriptions. Fine new leather binding.