Auction 43
Lot 003:
On the rear binding board is a large impression: “Beit Mas, published by Schneur Zalman Shmotkin, Warsaw”. Printed in Vilna 1930, a facsimile of the of the 1900 Vilna edition published by Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch. See the printer letter, Mondschein, Sefer HaTanya, p. 221. [1], 163 leaves, detached binding, very good condition.
Rabbi Schneur Zalman Shmotkin was a founder of the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva in Warsaw and served in its administration. He was also a member of the Ma’arechet HaTamim. At the end of his life he had a book business called “Beis Mechiras Sefarim Schneur”. After the Rayatz left Russia, he gave him a number of boxes of religious manuscripts. When a fire broke out in his home destroying all of his possessions, Rabbi Shmotkin was able to save the Rebbe’s manuscripts at the expense of his personal wealth, which caused the Rayatz great satisfaction. He died al kiddush hashem in 1942.
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