Auction 27
Lot 165:
On the Shulchan Aruch Orech Hayyim, halachot of Shabbat, by the Gaon Rabbi Uziel Meizlish. With endorsements from Admorim and rabbis of the period (Sadigura, Chortkov, Rabbi David of Amshinov, Radzmin, the Divrei Haim of Sanz, Rabbi Mendel of Kosov, and the Shoel u’Meishiv, and more). The text appears around the Shulchan Aruch’s daf. First and only edition. [2], 163 pages. Cover and first and last pages are repaired, cover and an additional page have missing text. Stamp of: “Company of Book Acquisition and Repairs, Belzer Shtiebel of Harovshov.” New binding with tear on the spine, generally ok to good condition. Rabbi Uziel ben Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meizlish (1744-1786) was an important student of the Ba’al Shem Tov and one of the first to spread Chassidism in Poland. After his death, his student the Maggid of Mastricht carried on his legacy, which won him veneration among the latter’s students. He was closely linked to Rabbi Haim Chaikel of Amador, Rabbi Yehiel Michal of Zlatchov, the brothers Rabbi Pinchas Horwitz of Frankfurt (the HaHafla’ah), and Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka of Nicklasburg, and the brothers Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli and Rabbi Elmelech of Luzhansk. They called him “Eved Hashem”. He served as rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Ostrovza, Ritschovel, and Neustatt, known as the Tiferet HaZvi after his main composition.
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