Auction 47
Lot 005:
Tikkun Leil Shavuot and Hoshana Raba “according to the seder of the Sefer HaShla” printed by the partners, grandsons of the Slavita Rav, Rabbis Chanina Lipa and Yehoshua Heschel Shapira”. Two title pages, the first in red ink. [3], 165 leaves.
New, handsome leather binding, inscribed with decorations and gilded letters. Inside a matching cardboard box. Stains and light defects. The two last leaves have been very professionally repaired. Signs of use, overall very good condition—especially for a prayer book used regularly.
The Zhitomir printing house only employed Jews and the well-known legend is that they did tevila on the printing blocks at the beginning of their print jobs. The printer was founded in Slavita by Rabbi Moshe Shapira son of the Admor Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz (a student of the Baal Shem Tov), and later was moved to Zhitomir and managed by his grandsons Rabbis Hanina Lipa and Yehoshua Heschel Shapira. This printing was characterized by the elegance and expertise of its managers and editors, apart from the sacred intentions and purity of thought that accompanied all their work, due to which many printers adopted their style, especially in prayer books such as siddurim and Books of Psalms, due to the great weight of prayer carried out using such objects of holiness.
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