Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
Or HaGanuz - First Edition - Segulah - Copy Belonging to Important Rabbis
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Sold for: $2,250
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Or HaGanuz, kabbalistic and Chassidic novellae on the Torah, with Part 2 - V'Zot L'Yehuda, novellae on the mishnayot "with kabbalistic lofty secrets" by R. Yehuda Leib HaCohen of Annopol. Lemberg [Lviv], 1866. First edition.
Approbations of Chassidic leaders, including the only approbation by the author of Tzemach Tzedek. Another approbation by R. Mordechai of Chernobyl (the Magid of Chernobyl) who writes of the segula and protective qualities of the book: "Every person should purchase this holy book for merit and excellent protection for himself and for posterity". His holy sons - R. Aharon of Chernobyl, R. Avraham of Turiysk and R. David of Tolna - who also approved the book, wrote in their approbations about the protection and segula provided by the book as written by their father: "We have faith in the words of my father that these holy books protect all who purchase them…", "…I have faith in the words of my father… as he writes… that these holy books protect all who purchase them and their posterity". In the publisher's introduction, the author's grandson writes that "the tsaddikim of the generation wrote that this composition is a protection and blessing in the home…".
The author, R. Yehuda Leib HaCohen of Annopol (died in 1807, Encyclopedia L'Chassidut, Vol. 2, pp. 33-34), disciple of the Magid of Mezritch. According to one source, he was a former disciple of the Vilna Gaon. Reputedly, he was one of the four disciples who were at the side of the Magid at the time of his death (together with R. Avraham HaMalach, Ba'al HaTanya and R. Zusha of Annopol). He and his friend R. Zusha of Annopol were approached by R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi to approve the Tanya. At time of printing, Or HaGanuz received enthusiastic approbations of prominent Chassidic leaders of those times including the only approbation ever given for a book by Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, author of Tzemach Tzedek. The book also received approbations by R. Mordechai of Chernobyl and his holy sons - R. Aharon of Chernobyl, R. Avraham of Turiysk and R. David of Tolna and of his nephew R. Yitzchak Ya'akov of Makariv as well as approbations by R. Chaim of Sanz and R. Yitzchak Meir of Ger, author of Chiddushei HaRim.
The title page and several other leaves bear stamps of R. Pinchas Hager of Borşa and of his son R. Yitzchak Meir of Sighet.
R. Pinchas Hager of Borşa (died in 1941), son of R. Baruch Hager of Vizhnitz. In 1893, he settled in Borşa in the Maramureş region and established his court attracting hundreds of Chassidim and was famed as an outstanding Torah scholar erudite in kabbalistic wisdom and a wonder-worker and extremely charitable. His son, R. Yitzchak Meir succeeded his father as Rebbe of Sighet until he and his family perished in the Holocaust.
Part 1: [1], 12; 84 leaves. Part 2 (separate title page): 33 leaves. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Inscriptions. Minor wear. Light worming to first leaves. Contemporary binding, worn.
Stefansky Chassidut, No. 21.
Approbations of Chassidic leaders, including the only approbation by the author of Tzemach Tzedek. Another approbation by R. Mordechai of Chernobyl (the Magid of Chernobyl) who writes of the segula and protective qualities of the book: "Every person should purchase this holy book for merit and excellent protection for himself and for posterity". His holy sons - R. Aharon of Chernobyl, R. Avraham of Turiysk and R. David of Tolna - who also approved the book, wrote in their approbations about the protection and segula provided by the book as written by their father: "We have faith in the words of my father that these holy books protect all who purchase them…", "…I have faith in the words of my father… as he writes… that these holy books protect all who purchase them and their posterity". In the publisher's introduction, the author's grandson writes that "the tsaddikim of the generation wrote that this composition is a protection and blessing in the home…".
The author, R. Yehuda Leib HaCohen of Annopol (died in 1807, Encyclopedia L'Chassidut, Vol. 2, pp. 33-34), disciple of the Magid of Mezritch. According to one source, he was a former disciple of the Vilna Gaon. Reputedly, he was one of the four disciples who were at the side of the Magid at the time of his death (together with R. Avraham HaMalach, Ba'al HaTanya and R. Zusha of Annopol). He and his friend R. Zusha of Annopol were approached by R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi to approve the Tanya. At time of printing, Or HaGanuz received enthusiastic approbations of prominent Chassidic leaders of those times including the only approbation ever given for a book by Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, author of Tzemach Tzedek. The book also received approbations by R. Mordechai of Chernobyl and his holy sons - R. Aharon of Chernobyl, R. Avraham of Turiysk and R. David of Tolna and of his nephew R. Yitzchak Ya'akov of Makariv as well as approbations by R. Chaim of Sanz and R. Yitzchak Meir of Ger, author of Chiddushei HaRim.
The title page and several other leaves bear stamps of R. Pinchas Hager of Borşa and of his son R. Yitzchak Meir of Sighet.
R. Pinchas Hager of Borşa (died in 1941), son of R. Baruch Hager of Vizhnitz. In 1893, he settled in Borşa in the Maramureş region and established his court attracting hundreds of Chassidim and was famed as an outstanding Torah scholar erudite in kabbalistic wisdom and a wonder-worker and extremely charitable. His son, R. Yitzchak Meir succeeded his father as Rebbe of Sighet until he and his family perished in the Holocaust.
Part 1: [1], 12; 84 leaves. Part 2 (separate title page): 33 leaves. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Inscriptions. Minor wear. Light worming to first leaves. Contemporary binding, worn.
Stefansky Chassidut, No. 21.