Two volumes containing two sections of the work She’erit Menachem on the Torah, as well as droshim on current events of the period, by the gaon chassid Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Rubinstein, a survivor of the Dor De’ah of chassidim in Poland.
This book is a primary source for divrei torah of Admorim and geonim of Poland.
First edition, Paris.
First section: Genesis-Exodus. 1954. [5], 11-30, [2], 5, 187, 53, 133, 39, 19 pages.
Second section: Leviticus-Numbers. 1954. 44, [4], 382, [3] pages.
Pretty bindings with inscription of the author’s name (see below), fraying in the spine, overall very good condition.
The binding leaves have the author’s stamps from when he served as Ra’avad of the Paris Community Association.
Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Rubinstein (1898-1964) was a Kotzker-Lomza chassid (son of Rabbi Yirmiyahu Menachem). H served in France before the war at the Ateret Yisrael community in Passage Kushner, and afterward as rabbi of the Community Association at rue Pavée. During the Shoah he was very active and was published widely on halacha, kashrut, education, hatarat agunot, and more.
He was in regular contact with rabbis from across a wide spectrum, including Chabad rabbis. He wrote She’erit Menachem, Shemen LaNer. The first work is a primary source for divrei torah from gedolim of Poland such as: the Saraf of Kotzk, the Avnei Nezer, and more. It did not leave the tables of Polish Admorim after the Shoah.
