Sefer Or Torah, divrei torah by Rabbeinu Dov Beer HaMaggid of Mezrich, successor of the Baal Shem Tov. Warsaw? 1840 approx?. 72 leaves. Bound with the work Mechir Yayin, the Rama’s commentary on Megillat Esther—Warsaw? 1866. [1], 20 leaves. Tears in the margins affecting the text in a few cases. Old worn binding, defective. Stains, overall good condition.
This book was given to the Admor of Seret-Vizhnitz as a Purim gift. The back of the title page of Mechir Yayin has an emotional dedication from a student of the Admor’s (Rabbi Baruch Hager, the Mekor Baruch), who writes from their exile in Dzhuryn, where the Admor and his community were forced during the Shoah, Purim 1942: “Simchat Purim and Simchat Olam, to one who merits and gives merit to the masses, Moharar Baruch Hager shlita, Av Beit Din and Rabbi of the city of my birth, Seret, I chose two valuable works, Or Torah by the Maggid of Mezrich…Binyamin Dov Sofer ben Hinda for salvation in body and spriti.”
Rabbi Binyamin Dov Sofer-Shreiber, probably the son of the grandson of the Chatam Sofer (Rabbi Shlomo Alexandrei Sofer-Schreiber of Seret, father-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Naftali Stern, Rosh Yeshivat Pressburg and publisher of the Chatam Sofer’s writings).
