Auction 45
Lot 227:
Mishnayot Seder Zra’im, “with commentaries of the famous geonim…as printed in Amsterdam with new additions..”. Printed in Chernowitz. [2], 132 leaves. Complete copy. Title page in red ink, antique leather binding integrated with cloth and detached, many moth holes, overall fair condition.
The back blank leaf has a rare, previously unknown stamp of the Admor Rabbi Aharon Moshe of the Geza Zvi. Blurred. Additional note handwritten next to it.
Rabbi Aharon Moshe of Geza Zvi (1775-1845) was a student of the Chozeh of Lublin and the Saraf of Starlisk, son-in-law of Rabbi Mordechai Horwitz, who published the book Chibat Yerushalayim. He worked in Torah and kabbalah in the city of Brod and in 1839 he moved to Israel, where he is considered the founder of the Chassidic community of Jerusalem and also led the Kollel HaChassidim. His entire life he mourned the destruction of Jerusalem. His well-known will was printed in Chernowitz in 1858. He wrote laws of tevila for women in Yiddish.
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