Auction 47
Lot 200:
Zohar Chadash on the Torah and Five Megillot, “printed for the second time by the Rabbi Yaakov ben Moharara Naftali Hirtz of Brod, with Tosafot Tov HaHaga’ah to correct mistakes that occurred in the earlier Amsterdam printing.” Printed by Avraham Yehuda Leib Meir Hoper of Zolkva. Handsome,
inscribed leather binding, stains and defects, overall good condition.
This copy was used personally by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Burnstein of Sochotchow, the author of the Avnei Nezer and Eglei Tal. The title page has his blurred stamp in Hebrew and Polish.
The blank first page has the stamp of his grandson, the Admor Rabbi David Burnstein of Sochotchow, when he was in the rabbinate of Visograd – see below.
The Admor Rabbi Avraham Burnstein (1839-1910) was the son of Rabbi Zeev Nachum (the Agudat Ezov), and son-in-law of the Saraf Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk. Despite the Kotzker Rebbe’s years of exclusion he was permitted to visit him and he became very close to him. Later he would testify that he learned darchei torah and the proper derech limmud from him. He was known as a huge talmid chacham, testified to by his works the Eglei Tal on melachot of Shabbas and his Shut Avnei Nezer. His introduction to the latter on the importance of Torah study and the boundaries of "Torah for its own sake" are known for being very important and is studied in mussar shiurs both in Lithuanian and Chassidic yeshivot.
His grandson, Admor Rabbi David Burnstein (1876/8 – 1943) was the son of the Admor Shem MiShmuel of Sochotchow and the third Admor of Sochotchow, a leader of Polish Jewry before the Shoah. He founded the Beit Avraham network of yeshivot which operated in Poland until the Shoah. During the Shoah he was a leader of the community in the Warsaw Ghetto. He studied under his grandfather the Saraf of Kotzk and was close to him. He also wrote chiddushei torah but most of his writings were destroyed in the Shoah, only a few were printed by his brother Rabbi Chanoch Henich in the book “Chasdei David”. The Pesach Haggadah “Shem MiShmuel” also have many of his divrei Torah, called “Chasdei David”, and the book Naot HaDeshe printed by his half-brother, Rabbi Aharon Yisrael Burnstein, also includes some of his philosophy alongside that of his grandfather, father, and brothers.
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