“Gedolim Maasei Hashem droshim for all…”, exegeses on the acts of Genesis, maasei avot, actions in the Torah—in the middle is “Maasei Mitzrayim” including an exegesis on the Pesach Haggadah with the wording of the Haggadah itself (this Haggadah is not listed in the Otzer Haggadot or in Yaari), written by Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi ben Rabbi Eliya HaRofeh. Zhovkva 1802. 104, 59 leaves in the original—this copy is missing the two last leaves.
Approbation of the “Orech LeChaim” of Zlotchow and Rabbi Yitzhak Ashkenazi of Lviv. Antique binding, leather spine, moisture stains, lone worming holes, faded yellow page cuttings, overall good condition.
Stamps, signatures, and notes of ownership from Rabbi Yosef Zvi (Hirsch) ben Mohari Kahane Shapira of Zgierz-Pietrekov, a descendant of the Chacham Zvi and the Megaleh Amukot.
He was a student of Rabbi Henich of Alexander and was almost condemned to hanging during the Polish Revolt before being saved by a priest. He died motzei Yom Kippur in 1878, is buried in Zgierz. His wife was Rachel Scheindel Warshavsky (born around 1807, died in 1857). He was a follower of the Kotzker Rebbe as well as those of Alexander and Gur, and was the son of Yehoshua and Zissel Kahane Shapira.
