Auction 56

Rare: Or HaNe’erav (chassidut). First edition, Ostroh 1824.

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Sefer Or HaNe’erav, on sugiyot of Seder Zra’im, Moed, Nashim, Nezikin, and a bit from Seder Kodshim. By Rabbi Avraham Aryeh Leib Kahane (born in Brod, known as a holy figure, Av Beit Din in Berdichev and then Polna, son of Rabbi Shalom Shachne), with exegesis from his son, the publisher, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Kahane.


First edition, Ostroh 1824. [2], 70, [6] leaves. Separate title page for the indices at the end of the book.
Catalogued in the Rare Books section of the National Library and other libraries. Blue, high-quality paper. Leaf 70b has the author’s yichus to gedolim and tzaddikim.

This book received important and rare approbations—the second title page(!) has a warm approbation from the Admor Ohev Yisrael of Opatow (when he resided in Mezhibuzh), the beginning of the work has approbations from: Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliyot, Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Aryeh Yehuda Leib Teumim (all from Brod), Rabbi Chaim Rapaport and Rabbi Betzalel Margaliyot (both from Ostroh). Rare approbations from Admorim:
Rabbi Avraham Dov of Owrucz, author of the Beit Ayin, and Rabbi Yitzhak of Radowil, son of the Maggid of Zlatchow.

Front binding is detached, tape hiding part of the title page, lone bits of worming holes and damage, light stains, overall good condition for a book this rare.