Auction 45
Lot 229:
“A new book never before published…to strengthen belief in the world based on clear ideas in chochma and emet…so that Hashem will see fit to increase the plenty and success and parnasa and to save us from illness and all evil…”. By Rabbi Avigdor Weinberger, an etrog merchant, see below. 4, 48, 24, 49-56 leaves. On the back of the title page is printed: “This book is a great segula for success and long life”.
Approbations from tzaddikim of the period in which they bless the purchasers/readers of the book. The Admor Imrei Yosef of Spinka: “you will be blessed with great goodness and nachat and the gates of plenty will be opened to you.”. Admor Rabbi Moshe Panet of Desh: “You will be influenced from the stores of heaven with plenty, blessings, and life.” Additional approbations from the gaon Rabbi Yuda Greenwald, Av Beit Din of Satmar, and Admorim and other rabbis.
At the end are 5 leaves of subscribers from all over Ashkenaz. Brittle paper, binding detached, a group of pages is detached, old binding, otherwise overall good condition.
The author was an etrog merchant, Rabbi Avigdor Weinberger, who lived in a town in Romania called Somkota Mara in the Satu-Mora district in northern Transylvania. This book was very popular and within five years had been printed in 7 editions, more than 25,000 copies! Three editions were also published in Yiddish (1902, 1905, 1911) and were spread widely.
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