Auction 48
Lot 021:
A nice work on the Torah and Megillot by Rabbeinu Meir Eisenstatt, the Maharam Ash/Esh (author of the Panim Me’irot). Printed together with the work Or Chadash by his grandson Rabbi Elazar Kalir, Av Beit din of Kalin. [4], 90 pages.
Bit of moth damage, cutting of the indices is adjacent to the text, some of the titles are cut off slightly. Some tape. Stains, tear on the cover and damage to text in a number of places. Old binding is worn. Signs of use, wear, mainly at the edges of pages. Generally ok condition at the beginning of the book, further into the book it is in much better condition.
Old listings of ownership on the cover have been erased. Stamps of ownership of Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad of Goro Homora-Yafo.
Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad (1900-1980) was the son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Babad, and a rabbi and chassidic rosh yeshiva in Bukovina and Israel, a student of the Gaon Rabbi Meir Arik of Tornov. He inherited his father’s position, and after WWII tried to immigrate to Israel but was sent to Cyprus in 1948 by the British, where he served as rabbi of the detention camp. After making it to Israel he was in constant contact with the Chazon Ish. Around 1952 he was appointed for a time as the Rosh Yeshiva of Yechel Yisrael of the Seret-Vizhnitz Chassidic community, led by his son-in-law Admor Rabbi Baruch Hager.
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