Auction 75
Lot 124:
Sefer Devash Lefi, section II of Kuntres Midbar Emet and a commentary on the Haggadah, an important work by Rabbeinu Chaim Yosef David Azulai (the Chida). Printed in Torno, 1929. 90 leaves. Stains and small tears. Good overall condition.
Glosses and signature!
In the book, there are three stamps: "ברוך בהה"צ מוהר"י מוויזניצא אב"ד דק"ק סערעט והגליל". In addition, on the guard leaf, Rabbeinu’s foreign name – apparently handwritten by him. Inside the book, five glosses handwritten by him.
Rabbi Baruch Hager of Seret-Vizhnitz (1895-1964) was the son of the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz. He was a member of the Council of Torah Sages, named the Mekor Baruch after his work on the Torah. He was a huge Talmid Chacham, and was certified for the rabbinate by greats of the period: Rabbi Meir Arik and Rabbi Avraham Menachem Mendel Steinberg. He first married the daughter of Rabbi Issachar Dov Rokeach (the Maharid of Belz), and served in the rabbinates of Poylen and Kutzman (cities), and in 1936 he was the first Rav of Seret, Bukovina, where he established the Beit Yisrael VeTomchin DeOrayta Yeshiva and headed it, until the Jews were expelled during the Holocaust. He led the Transnistria and Dzorin exiles taking care of the oppressed and, later, the survivors.
After the war, he lived in Antwerp, and despite the pleading of its residents refused a rabbinic position there, saying the thing he most wanted was to move to Eretz Yisrael. In 1947 his wish came true, and he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael, where he settled in Haifa. Being a visionary, our rabbi reasoned that he wanted to make the spiritual wilderness bloom, so a few years later he established the Ramat Vizhnitz neighborhood on the Carmel. He authored several works, including a comprehensive commentary on the Choshen Mishpat, but unfortunately, most of those were lost during the Holocaust. He was buried next to his forefathers, Admorim of Vizhnitz, next to his father, the Ahavat Yisrael.
In addition, on the title page and back guard leaf, slightly faded Hungarian stamps: "FABRICA DE OTET KRAPPER IZIDOR TASNAD…".
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