Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects

Or Yisrael (Kozhnitz) – Czernowitz, 1862 / Eretz HaChaim – Czernowitz, 1861 – Both Parts / Likutei Torah (Chernobyl) – Lviv, 1865

Opening: $300
Sold for: $575
Including buyer's premium

Volume comprising four Chassidic books printed in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) and Lviv:


1. Or Yisrael, commentary on Tikunei Zohar by R. Yisrael Hopstein, the Maggid of Kozhnitz. Czernowitz, 1862. First edition. Two title pages.

2. Eretz HaChaim, Part I, halachic and aggadic novellae on Tractate Berachot by Rebbe Chaim Tyrer of Czernowitz, author of Be'er Mayim Chaim and Sidduro Shel Shabbat. Czernowitz, 1861. First edition. Two title pages.

3. Eretz HaChaim, Part II, selections on Tehillim, Neviim, Ketuvim and Megillot by Rebbe Chaim Tyrer of Czernowitz, author of Be'er Mayim Chaim and Sidduro Shel Shabbat. Czernowitz, 1861. First edition. Divisional title page.

4. Likutei Torah, Chassidut and guidance by Rebbe Mordechai of Chernobyl (variant including approbation of Rebbe Avraham Yaakov of Sadigura; see: Kedem, Auction 055, Lot 128).
On all books, old stamps of "Gershon Kohen Botchan[?]" and many signatures of R. Chaim Yochanan Lefkowitz of Satmar [for his biography see Ish Chayil, two parts, New York, 2018].

[3], 57 leaves; [2], 79 leaves (leaf 79 bound out of place at beginning of book); [2], 30 leaves; [4], 3-52, 52-63 leaves. 20.5 cm. Condition varies, good-fair to fair. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Worming to Or Yisrael and Likutei Torah, affecting text. Dark stains to first title page of Or Yisrael, with paper repairs to verso and second title page. Many inscriptions and stamps. Old binding, worn, without spine.