Auction 27

Lev Sameach [Alesk], rare section on Exodus—first edition from Premyslan 1895, bound together with a complete set of the Imrei Noam on the Torah and holidays

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Two volumes of Chassidic works: first, Imrei Noam sections 1-2 on the Torah, by Rabbi Meir HaLevi Horowitz of Dzikov. Cover of section 2 has mistakenly printed the title “Section 1”. Second edition, Yaroslav 1907. [2], 117, [3]; 101 [1] pages. Fragile paper. Tears, mainly in the margins. Stains, generally good condition. Second volume: Imrei Noam, third section, on holidays and months of the year, first edition of this section, Munkatch 1896. [1], 95, 98-100, [1] page. Bound with the book Lev Sameach on the Torah, the Exodus section (the rarest part), by the Admor Rabbi Hanoch Henich Dov of Alesk—first edition. [1], 63 pages. Listings of ownership and stamp in the local language. Pages disconnected, binding disconnected, fragile paper. Ok to good condition. Rabbi Meir Horowitz was Avdak of Dzikov (1819-1877), known as the Imrei Noam, was the son of Rabbi Eliezer of Dzikov and grandson of Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Rofshitz, father of Rabbi Yehoshua of Dzikov (the Ateret Yeshua) and father-in-law of the Admor Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz. Rabbi Hanoch Henich of Eier (1800-1884) was the son of Rabbi Shmuel Meir of Alesk, son-in-law of Admor Rabbi Shalom HaSar Shalom of Belz. He was a student of Rabbi Uri of Starlisk and Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Rofshitz and of his father-in-law. He served in the rabbinate of Stinov and Bolesk in Galicia. After his father-in-law’s death, he began to serve as Admor. In addition to this book he also published a commentary on the Pesach Haggadah and the siddur. His sons-in-law were Rabbi Moshe Zilberfarb, Rabbi Zvi Rokach, and Rabbi Asher Anshil Ashkenazi.