Auction 51
Lot 279:
Sefer Torah Or on the Chumash Bereishit and Shmot, with additions to the Torah Or (separate title page). By the Admor Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liady. Vilna 1899. Rare edition, hasn’t appeared at auction before.
The title page and blank first leaf has the signature and stamp of Rabbi Ben Zion of Ostrova, a student of the Saraf of Kotzk and Admorim of the Gur dynasty. Two title pages and an additional title page for the additions. [3], 100, 24 leaves. Worming holes, binding defective and missing the spine, front binding detached, good condition.
Rabbi Ben Zion of Ostrova (1841-1926) was one of the youngest students of the Saraf of Kotzk (Rabbi Menachem Mendel) and a student of the Chiddushei HaRim and Admorim of the Gur dynasty. He was considered in his generation as a copyist of the words of the Admorim of Kotzk and a remnant of the Dor De’ah. The Imrei Emet would rise whenever he entered the room. Some of his divrei torah were gathered in the book Vayilaket Yosef ant Yitzbor Yosef.
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