Auction 44

Sefer Yesod: Tosefet Shabbat (chassidut)—first edition, Frankfurt-der-Oder 1767.

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Tosefet Shabbat, a halachic work on laws of Shabbat, from the student of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mastrich—the gaon Rabbi Refael Meizlish, the Ra’avad Horchov. First edition from his lifetime. 142 leaves. Stefanski Sifrei Yesod 199. Many approbations from geonim, Rabbi David Tevil of Brody, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak of Zamosc (the Merkavat HaMishnah), Rabbi Naftali Yitzhak of Dovna, Rabbis of Brody, Berlin, Gluga, Rabbi Shaul of Amsterdam, and more.


There is also a warm approbation written in rhyme from the gaon Rabbi Yehezkel Segel Landau (the Noda B’Yehuda), who even notes: “All of his writings are with da’as and chochmah, and he has the right frame of theought, he asks and answers k’inyana, and apart from his clear wisdom he also has bekiyus in Divrei Shas and the poskim…”. Long introduction from the author. New binding. The title page and a few pages after it have been professionally repaired with damage in the margins of the text, a few moth holes, overall good condition.