Rare, with yichus: Sefer Luach Erez, second section, with eulogies on gedolim of the period (chassidus). First edition, Chernowitz 1886

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Sefer Luach Erez, exegeses, commentaries, droshim, and eulogies on the Five Books of Torah. By Rabbi Yitzhak Kunstadt of Pressburg, Av Beit Din of Radovitz and the district (Bukovina). Section 2: Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim. [1], 161, [13] leaves. Of all the libraries attached to the consolidated catalog we have found only one copy in the National Library.

Repaired title page, lone bits of tape on some pages. Leaves 3-4 have text filled in by hand. Stains, lone moth holes, loose binding, leather spine, overall good condition.

The body of the work is interspersed with eulogies of Jewish gedolim, among them the Admor Rabbi Avraham Yaakov of Sadigura and the gaon Rabbi Shimon Sofer of Krakow, as well as Sir Moses Montefiore and more.

The title page has a stamp of Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad of Gura-Homora, and at the end is one from his father, Rabbi Mendel Babad. Additional note in the indices was not checked thoroughly.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Babad, rabbi of Gora-Homoroloy (Bukovina). A descendent of Rabbi Yosef Babad, the Minchas Chinuch, appointed over Chassidei Chortkov, known as a great talmid chacham who was in regular correspondence with greats of his generation. Died in 1930.

His son and successor, Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad (1900-1980) was rabbi and chassidic rosh yeshiva in Bukovina and Israel, a student of the Gaon Rabbi Meir Arik of Tornov. He inherited his father’s position, and after WWII tried to immigrate to Israel but was sent to Cyprus in 1948 by the British, where he served as rabbi of the detention camp. After making it to Israel he was in constant contact with the Chazon Ish. Around 1952 he was appointed for a time as the Rosh Yeshiva of Yechel Yisrael of the Seret-Vizhnitz Chassidic community, led by his son-in-law Admor Rabbi Baruch Hager.

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