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 – Zhitomir, 1862 – First Edition of "Hosafot L'Sefer Torah Or"

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Torah Or, Chassidic essays on Bereshit and Shemot, Chanukah and Purim, with Hosafot L'Sefer Torah Or (Supplements to Torah Or), by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, [1862]. Two volumes. First edition of the supplements. 
The supplements include 15 new essays by the Baal HaTanya. While most of the book follows the writings of the author's brother, R. Yehuda Leib of Janowiec, the essays printed in the supplements were written by the author's son, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch, as attested to on the title page of this section.

Stamp and ownership inscription of Rabbi Shlomo Noach Krol (1928-1998), Rabbi of Chemed and dean of yeshivat Chemdat Shmuel, on title page of Torah Or. 
Two volumes. * Vol. I (Torah Or): [1], 3-102 ff. First title page missing. * Vol. II (supplements): 24 ff. 26.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Browning. Worming, slightly affecting text. New bindings.
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Books of the Alter Rebbe
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