Auction 57
Lot 262:
Five Megillot “with Targum Rishon and Sheni, Rashi’s commentary and the Siftei Chachamim, the Ramban’s commentary on Shir HaShirim, the Sforno on Shir HaShirim and Kohelet, and the Bartenura on Megillat Ruth, and valuable commentaries from the Rav Gaon Moshe Alshich, ” printed in Warsaw. 67, 70, 41, 40, 60 leaves. Separate title page for each megillah.
Bound with the Sefer Midrash Eliyahu, 10 droshim by Rabbi Eliyahu HaKohen (the Shevet Mussar). Warsaw 1878. 82, [6] leaves. At the end of the book, before the indices, are approbations from Rabbi Chaim Abulafya of Izmir and the Admor Rabbi Avraham Yaakov of Sadigura.
Hard binding, stains and many signs of use, worming holes, focused worming damage through a group of leaves, overall good condition.
The title page has a stamp documenting that this copy was owned by the Admor Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Husiatyn, grandson of the Kadosh Yisrael of Ruzhyn. In Shir HaShirim and Eicha there are tearstains that, if they could speak, would tell us about the tzaddik’s dveikus to the Boreh and who would welcome the Shabbos with the verses of Shir HaShirim, and who would end the Seder by expressing his sorrow over the Churban and would read Eicha with hopes for a geulah shlemah.
Megillat Ruth has a note in pen in the margins of the sheets: “Ruth was the gilgul of the eldest daughter of Lot”. The inscription is from later and is not from the above Admor.
Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Husiatyn (1858-1949), the elder of the rebbes of the Ruzhin family, named after his grandfather the founder of the dynasty Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin. In 1894 he was appointed to succeed his father as rebbe of Husiatyn and the thousands of disciples who had followed his father now accepted his authority. Toward the end of his life he immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv, where he established his court.
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