Auction 63
Lot 263:
A volume containing two important books:
1. Tfilah LeMoshe Mahadur Tanina by Rabbi Moshe Almosnino with Kuntres Hakshurim leYaakov by Rabbi Yaakov Shenkil of Torno. Printed in Tranov 1903. [8], 57 pp. Foreword by Rabbi Yaakov Shenkil. Detached title page. Taping affecting the text.
2. Tal Orot by the Kabbalist, the disciple of the Ari, Rabbi Meir Poppers. First edition from a manuscript that was owned by the Admor the Imrei Emet of Ger (on the title page: Shalita) – Warsaw, 1911. 182 pp. Taping to the title page affecting the text.
New binding. Fragile paper. Moth perforations and damage. Fair overall condition.
On the flyleaf of Sefer Tal Orot, an ownership notation in Assyrian script: "ה"ק יעקב הלברשטם אבד"ק טשאקאווא והגליל" the notation has been blurred – see pictures.
the Admor Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam was the first Admor of Tshokova. The son of Rabbi Sinai Halberstam of Zhmigrod who was the son of Rabbi Baruch of Gorlitz – the son of the founder of the dynasty Maran the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Rabbi Yaakov was the son-in-law of the Admor Rabbi Shalom Moskovich of Schotz-London. When he was 21, he served as Rav of Tshokova. In 1935, he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael, living in Jerusalem where he established the Diveri Chaim Sanz-Tshokova synagogue and yeshiva. Lived for a while in the USA, where he passed away in 1967.
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