Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Taharat Ha-Kodesh / Korban Shabat – Bialozorka, 1806

Opening: $200
Sold for: $325
Including buyer's premium
Two Kabbalah and Chasidut books printed in Bialozorka (Ukraine) in a printing press established by the successors of Rabbi Moshe the Printer of Minkovitz:
1. Tahart Ha-Kodesh, Kabbalic and Mussar Practices, by Rabbi Binyamin Wolf. Bialozorka, 1806. Served as a source for many of the mussar books printed thereafter. Approbation by Aryeh Yehudah Leib Ben Shalom Segal of Zbariz and Volochisk, who was on his way to Israel and submitted the approbation when the printing house was founded.
2. Korban Shabat, Halachic and Kabbalic Shabat issues, by Rabbi Bezalel of Kobryn. Bialozorka, 1806. Approbation by Rabbi Naftali Katz.
The Ga'on Rabbi Aryeh Yehudah Leib of Volochisk, a disciple of the Maggid of Mezrich and a leading rabbi in his generation. In-law of the Seer of Lublin and of Rabbi Nachman of Breslav. In 1805 he moved with his family to Eretz Yisrael and was buried in Safed in 1813 in a cave between the tombs of the Ari and Yosef Caro.
19.5 cm. White and green paper. Good-fair condition. Stains, slight moth damages. Paper pasted to borders of some leaves for reinforcement. Stain on upper part of part of the leaves. No binding.
Two of the only three Hebrew books printed in Bialozorka. See A. Yaari, The Hebrew Printing Press in Minkowitz, Kiryat Sefer, 19, 1942-1943 page 268.
Hassidism and Kabbalah
Hassidism and Kabbalah