Auction 51
Lot 239:
Sefer Luach Erez, exegeses, commentaries, droshim, and eulogies on the Five Books of Torah. By Rabbi Yitzhak Kunstadt of Pressburg, Av Beit Din of Radovitz and the district (Bukovina). Section 2: Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim. [1], 161, [13] leaves. Of all the libraries attached to the consolidated catalog we have found only one copy in the National Library.
Repaired title page, lone bits of tape on some pages. Leaves 3-4 have text filled in by hand. Stains, lone moth holes, loose binding, leather spine, overall good condition.
The body of the work is interspersed with eulogies of Jewish gedolim, among them the Admor Rabbi Avraham Yaakov of Sadigura and the gaon Rabbi Shimon Sofer of Krakow, as well as Sir Moses Montefiore and more.
The title page has a stamp of Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad of Gura-Homora, and at the end is one from his father, Rabbi Mendel Babad. Additional note in the indices was not checked thoroughly.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Babad, rabbi of Gora-Homoroloy (Bukovina). A descendent of Rabbi Yosef Babad, the Minchas Chinuch, appointed over Chassidei Chortkov, known as a great talmid chacham who was in regular correspondence with greats of his generation. Died in 1930.
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