Online Auction 42 - Chabad

Special Chabad Auction in Honor of Chag HaGeulah Yud-Tes Kislev – Rosh Hashana of Chassidut - Marking the Date in which Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi was Released from Czarist Imprisonment

Torah Or, by the Baal HaTanya – Kopust, 1836 – First Edition

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Torah Or, 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.
The book was written from teachings heard directly from Baal HaTanya by his brother R. Yehuda Leib of Janowiec, author of She'erit Yehuda, and was arranged and edited for print by his disciple and grandson Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch.
Ownership stamps and signatures (see Hebrew description).
[1] 167, [1] ff. Two title pages. Without leaf of errata. Both title pages printed in red and black. 22 cm. Book was professionally restored. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear. Open tears and worming to most leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper. Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. Fine new leather binding.
PLEASE NOTE: Item descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to Hebrew text.
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