Auction 60
Lot 53:
"Kuntres of glosses and comments on the Alfasi volume I, with Halachot Ktanot" published by Rabbi Shneur Zalman ben Nachum Yosef Schneersohn. In his foreword, he reveals the source from which he had printed the book – a small manuscript on parchment which noted the writer’s name: "Binyamin ben Rabbi Menachem of the Suomi family the year of 860 of the fifth Millenium". On tractates Ta’anis, Beitzah, Rosh Hashana, Sukkah, Megilah, Mo’ed Katan, Chulin.
First edition, printed by Yisrael Bak, Jerusalem 1865. (The year of printing according to the date of the approbations). 4 leaves. Shoshana Halevi 111, Despite the notation "Volume I", additional sections were not published. In the National Library, it appears in the collection of rare books. Approbations by Rabbi Chaim David Chazan, Rabbi Chai Raphael Abulafia and Rabbi Avraham Ashkenazi.
An extremely rare item which to the best of our knowledge has not been seen in auctions. Detached leaves. Taping to the edges. Unusually wide margins. Stains. Tears to the edges. Some moth perforations. Good general condition.
On the first page, the publisher’s stamp: "Shneur Zalman Schneer Sohn" in Hebrew and a foreign language with an illustration of the Western Wall.
On verso of the last leaf, the stamp of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Berlin, the Son of the Natziv of Volozhin.
Rabbi Shneur Zalman Schneersohn (ca. 1831-1882) a Chabadic Gaon, the great-grandson of the Adnor Hazaken Ba’al Hatanya, one of the leaders of the Chabad community of Jerusalem, the manager of Kollel Chabad and its Shadar. Author of Nimukei Shazcani, Chemdah Gnuzah and Zichron Yerushalayim. Served as a proofreader at the famed printery of Rabbi Yisroel Bak in Jerusalem, purchased the library of the Chida and was renowned as a painter who used his talent to draw the holy places of Eretz Yisroel for the philanthropists he encountered as a Shadar.
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