Auction 52

Siach Yitzhak, Minchat Purim, 2 booklets. Poltava 1913-1914.

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Sefer Siach Yitzhak Minchat Purim, “including songs of praise for Hashem…including the Sefer Brit HaTana’im and the Ketuba and Sheva Brachot…between Mordechai the Jew…and Esther HaMalka…and the Sefer Tnaim and ketuba and seven curses between Haman the Rasha and Zeresh HaRash’aa…”. Prayers, piyyutim, and droshim in the spirit of Purim, by Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Chazan of Lubisch.

A unique copy with an abbreviated front jacket cover which doesn’t appear in bibliographic lists. Poltova (Ukraine), printed by Rabbi Rabinowitz, the first booklet 1913, the second 1914. [3], 35; 20 pages. Light defects, overall good condition. Rebound. 

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Chazan of Lubisch in Poland (1842-1928), son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Plotzk, a student and chacham known in his generation. The Natziv printed the book Rina shel Torah from his writings (and dedicated one of his one books to him). He published articles in religious journals and wrote “Siach Yitzhak” (Poltova 1913), and additional works that remain in manuscript.