Auction 44

Tal L’Yisrael, first edition from the author’s lifetime. Pietrekov-Warsaw 1926. Copy with yichus.

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Tal L’Yisrael, “hashkafot, ideas, and logic on the Jewish people—its Torah, identity, creativity, and history—combined with exegeses on agadot of Chazal. At the end is a pamphlet on the negotiation of halacha”, by Rabbi Tuvya Yehuda Tavyomi (Gutentag), Av Beit Din of Sokhachin.

First edition from the author’s lifetime, typeset by Chanoch Paulman in Pietrekov and printed by Y. Wegmeister in Warsaw, 1926. [2], 138 leaves. Brittle paper, stains, a crease and tape along the length of the title page, no spine, overall good condition.

Note on the title page: “David Halberstam” and stamps of “David Halberstam Av Beit Din of Dobra and the Galil (Slovakia)”.

Rabbi David Halberstam was the son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Halberstam, the 2nd Admor of Stropkov (of the Zans dynasty). Served as rabbi in Dobra, Slovakia.