Auction 57

Rare! Shaar HaShirim by a talmid chaver of the Gra. First edition, Warsaw 1889.

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Sefer Shaar HaShirim “including songs for all 3 meals of shabbat and motzei shabbat, and songs for the Regalim and the Shir Mizmor for Channukah and a wonderful song for a siyum Shas Mishnah”, with exegesis on the interiority and kavanot of kedushat hayamim and their sodim based on the Zohar and Arizal. Unique work by Rabbi Moshe Shlomo of Tul’chyn, a talmid chaver of the Gra in kabbalah.


First edition from a manuscript. First edition, Warsaw 1889. [2], 61 pages. Winograd Gra 1526. At the end is a zemer for Motzei Shabbat attributed to Rashi (his name features in an acrostic). Kabbalistic illustrations for some piyyutim.

Typographic changes in the title page, paper a little brittle, a few bits of worming damage, stains, tape on the title page, overall good condition.

The body of the work has a stamp: “Rav Avraham Reichlin, Rabbi in the Bronx, NY”