Book by Rabbi Asher Zvi of Ostraha, drashot and chiddushim on the week’s parshiyot, Psalms, and likkutim. First edition, with the approbation of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Yeschel of Aphtha (the Ohev Yisrael), who writes “it is known that all of what he said were with ruach hakodesh.” Stefanski Chassidut 355. Originally [2], 116 leaves. This copy is missing the title page and half of the second leaf, plus wear on the two first leaves, lone moth holes, stains, leaf 20 has a tear with light damage to text, original binding with repaired spine (unprofessionally done), otherwise very good condition.
The book has stamps of the Admor Rabbi Yehuda Yehiel Taub of Rozla, son of Rabbi Pinchas Haim of Rozla, author of Torat Yehiel and Beit Yehuda and other works. The blank first leaf has a handwritten signature of his son Menachem Mendel Taub, the Admor of Koliv, who writes “this book belongs to me, exchanged with my brother-in-law the Rav shlita on Thursday of Parshat Emor 1942 (during the Shoah!). The Admor of Koliv stamped twice on the blank first page, plus there is an additional stamp of “Bila Taub”, the daughter of Rabbi Yehuda Yehiel of Rozla.
The Admor Rabbi Yehuda Yehiel of Rozla (1887-1937) was the son of Rabbi Pinchas Haim of Rozla, son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe David of Stanislav, and served as rabbi in Morgenratten and after his father’s death was made Admor of Rozla. He was known as a holy man, very proficient in learning and a baal chesed who carried all of Israel’s tzaros, he wrote Torat Yehiel and Beit Yehuda and more works which were lost during the Shoah.
Admor Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub of Koliv (1924-2014) was the 7th generation descended from Rabbi Yitzhak Issac of Koliv. He worked to strengthen Judaism in Israel and to commemorate those murdered during the Shoah, and he established a chain of synagogues and yeshivot across Israel.
