Auction 17
Lot 278:
Halachot of Lashon Hara and gossip. By the ever holy Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen of Radin, who removed his name from the book and whose name goes unmentioned in the endorsements, except in the margins of the cover in Russian: Y. M. Kagan. Without the ‘Prenumeranten’ page, which only existed on some copies. With a front dust jacket that was printed on yellow paper, and which doesn’t appear on the bibliographic register. On the last page are four lines of cursive handwriting, possibly by the Chafetz Hayyim himself. Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen (1838-1933), known as the Chafetz Hayyim because of the book before us now, was one of the greatest poskim of the last generations, and is known by the entire Jewish People. Studied in Vilna, taught in Vasiliški, and established his yeshiva in Radin. Among the founders of Agudat Yisrael, participated in its Great Congress in Vienna (1933), and was made the world president of the Council of Torah Sages. | Inscriptions and erasures on the dust jacket. Anterior binding is missing. | [1], 5, [1], 8-81 pages. 22cm. Generally good condition.
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