Auction 63
Lot 162:
Sefer Chazon Ish. Hilchot Kilyim and Orlah. At its end a table of Tzurot. First edition – Jerusalem, 1940. Printed anonymously. Binding reinforced with tape. Some moth perforations. Some moth damage. Stains. Good overall condition.
The Chazon Ish is the name of the series of halachic books by the great sage Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karlitz, known as the Chazon Ish himself. This series achieved central status in studies, and the rabbi became very famous as a result of it. The series was edited mainly by his brother-in-law, Rav Shmuel Greenman. In the beginning, the book was published almost unedited. When the Chazon Ish would finish writing a booklet on something specific, he would give it to his brother-in-law to print it. Using this formula they published 22 volumes (all during the author’s lifetime). The volumes before us are from those volumes, and are rare. After the Chazon Ish’s death in 1954, Rabbi Greenman began editing the series according to the order of the tractates of the Shas and Shulchan Aruch. This series became the classic edition of the book, and was printed in many editions. Today, the normal series contains 9 volumes.
On the title page, an ownership signature in initials "חי"א שר – the handwritten signature of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Isaac Schor (1875-1952) the Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka and one of the leaders of the Mussar Movement of the previous generation. The son of Rabbi Yosef and son-in-law of the Saba of Slabodka Rabbi Natan Zvi Finkel. Already in Lithuania, he served in varied positions at his in-law’s yeshiva and later, headed the Kollel that operated there. When he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael, he served as the Rosh Yeshiva alongside the Mashgiach, Rabbi Avraham Grodzinsky. After World War II, he re-established the Slabodka Yeshiva with his son-in-law Rabbi Mordechai Shulman and headed it until his passing. Was laid to rest in the Shomrei Shabbat cemetery of Bnei Berak near the grave of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, the Michtav MiEliyahu.
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