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Lot 230:
Sefer Yismach Moshe on the Torah (before us are the sections of Genesis to Leviticus), a Chassidic work by Rabbi Admor Moshe Teitelbaum of Ohel, one of the most common foundational works studied by Chassidim, edited and organized for printing by his grandson, the Admor Yeitev Lev of Sighet, who added an introduction to Genesis and a few places in Sefer Amar HaMesader. Stefanski Chassidut 239. One volume bearing the first three sections. [1], 117, 90, 42 leaves. The title page of Genesis and 3 additional pages which were missing have been resupplied using artistic facsimiles. Repairs to a number of pages, tears with damage to text and moth damage on many pages. Old binding, the original used by Rabbi Shmuel Heller, has undergone artistic repairs and has had leather corners and inscriptions added to it. Many signatures of ownership, 2 notes, and a number of markings throughout the book by Rabbi Heller.
Rabbi Shmuel Heller (1803-1884) was the Rabbi of Tzfat and a leader of the Ashkenazi community there for more than 40 years. He was great-grandson of Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller, author of the Tosafot Yom Tov, and his grandfather Rabbi Avraham Peretz was a follower of the Chozeh of Lublin, who took Rabbi Shmuel as a student. He moved to Israel and settled in Tzfat, and became close to the Admor Rabbi Avraham Dov of Ovritsh (the Bat Ayin), whom he succeeded in the rabbinate after his death. He was considered a proficient healer using the flora of Israel, and he succeeded to rehabilitate Tzfat after the destruction wrote by an earthquake. His grandson was the Admor Toldot Aharon Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kahan.
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