Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Set of Heichal HaBerachah Chumashim, Komarno - Lviv, 1864-1874 - First Edition - Segulah Book, with a Blessing from the Author: "I am Confident that Anyone who Has Our Chumash in His Home will be Spared from any Misfortune and Harm, Illness and Want; His Home Will be Filled with G-d's Blessing and All Good, Success, Wealth and Longevity…"
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Set of Five Books of the Torah, with Targum Onkelos and various commentaries, and with the Heichal HaBerachah and Otzar HaChaim commentaries, by Rebbe Yitzchak Eizik Yehuda Yechiel Safrin, rabbi of Zidichov and Komarno. Lviv: Pessel Balaban, [1864-1874]. First edition printed in the lifetime of the author, over the course of approximately ten years. Five volumes.
This book contains two original works by the author: The Heichal HaBerachah commentary - commentary based on Kabbalistic and Chassidic teachings regarding Masorah, exact spelling of words and spacing between sections; and the Otzar HaChaim commentary on the 613 mitzvot as found in the Torah portions, Kabbalistic and Chassidic commentary explaining which mitzvah is alluded to in each letter of the Ten Commandments. Both compositions are based on the principles of the Arizal and Baal Shem Tov.
The Heichal HaBerachah chumashim by R. Yitzchak Eizik of Komarno are classic works of Kabbalistic and Chassidic thought, favored by rebbes of all circles.
The author describes in a letter the segulah qualities of the book, promising "…I am confident that anyone who has our Chumash in his home will be spared from any misfortune and harm, illness and want, and his home will be filled with G-d's blessing and all good, success, wealth and longevity for him and his offspring… children, life and sustenance, benevolence and mercy, favorable judgement, for a long life".
Incomplete copies. Five volumes. Bereshit: 2-174, 213-224, 175-212, 225-281, [5] leaves. Lacking 9 leaves: first 3 leaves, 282-283, and [4] final leaves. Leaves 213-224 bound out of sequence. Shemot vol. (with Megillat Esther): 2-320, [39] leaves. Lacking 10 leaves: first 3 leaves, and [7] leaves before final leaf of Megillat Esther. Vayikra vol. (with Shir HaShirim): [2], 300, [11]; [4], 15-58, 60-62 leaves. Lacking leaf 59 of second sequence. Bamidbar vol. (with Megillat Ruth): [1], 225, [15] leaves. Lacking first 3 leaves. Devarim vol. (with Megillat Kohelet and Eichah): 1-56, 65-211, [1], 26 leaves. Lacking 12 leaves: first [4] leaves, and leaves 57-64 of first sequence. Leaves 77-85 bound out of order.
Approx. 26-27.5 cm. Particularly dry and brittle paper in Bereshit vol. Condition varies, good-fair to fair. Stains (some leaves with many stains). Wear to some leaves. Tears, including large open tears affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Open tears to title page of Vayikra vol., repaired with paper. Worming affecting text (primarily to Bamidbar vol.). Margins trimmed with damage to text in several places. Several detached leaves in Devarim vol. Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. New, uniform bindings.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 218.
This book contains two original works by the author: The Heichal HaBerachah commentary - commentary based on Kabbalistic and Chassidic teachings regarding Masorah, exact spelling of words and spacing between sections; and the Otzar HaChaim commentary on the 613 mitzvot as found in the Torah portions, Kabbalistic and Chassidic commentary explaining which mitzvah is alluded to in each letter of the Ten Commandments. Both compositions are based on the principles of the Arizal and Baal Shem Tov.
The Heichal HaBerachah chumashim by R. Yitzchak Eizik of Komarno are classic works of Kabbalistic and Chassidic thought, favored by rebbes of all circles.
The author describes in a letter the segulah qualities of the book, promising "…I am confident that anyone who has our Chumash in his home will be spared from any misfortune and harm, illness and want, and his home will be filled with G-d's blessing and all good, success, wealth and longevity for him and his offspring… children, life and sustenance, benevolence and mercy, favorable judgement, for a long life".
Incomplete copies. Five volumes. Bereshit: 2-174, 213-224, 175-212, 225-281, [5] leaves. Lacking 9 leaves: first 3 leaves, 282-283, and [4] final leaves. Leaves 213-224 bound out of sequence. Shemot vol. (with Megillat Esther): 2-320, [39] leaves. Lacking 10 leaves: first 3 leaves, and [7] leaves before final leaf of Megillat Esther. Vayikra vol. (with Shir HaShirim): [2], 300, [11]; [4], 15-58, 60-62 leaves. Lacking leaf 59 of second sequence. Bamidbar vol. (with Megillat Ruth): [1], 225, [15] leaves. Lacking first 3 leaves. Devarim vol. (with Megillat Kohelet and Eichah): 1-56, 65-211, [1], 26 leaves. Lacking 12 leaves: first [4] leaves, and leaves 57-64 of first sequence. Leaves 77-85 bound out of order.
Approx. 26-27.5 cm. Particularly dry and brittle paper in Bereshit vol. Condition varies, good-fair to fair. Stains (some leaves with many stains). Wear to some leaves. Tears, including large open tears affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Open tears to title page of Vayikra vol., repaired with paper. Worming affecting text (primarily to Bamidbar vol.). Margins trimmed with damage to text in several places. Several detached leaves in Devarim vol. Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. New, uniform bindings.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 218.
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