Auction 65
Lot 56:
Sefer Hazohar by the Divine Tana Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Sefer Shemot. Variant: printed with Sefer Yahel Or known as Hadrat Kodesh (with a separate title page) – a commentary on the Zohar by the Chassid haGra of Vilna. And with Nefesh David by the Radal. They were both printed separately in that same year. First edition of HaGra’s commentary – Vilna, 1882. [2], 2-278 leaves. Vinograd Gra, 676 and 677. The pagination of Yahel Or does not appear clearly in the documentation for this variant which was printed with the Zohar itself.
The title page of Yahel Or is detached. Detached sheets. Stains. Good overall condition.
On the title page, 2 (blurred) stamps indicating this copy was owned by the gaon Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the Natziv) of Volozhin (1817-1893) the son of Rabbi Yaakov and one of the most well-known sages of Eastern Europe in the 19th century. For around 40 years he headed the famed Volozhin yeshiva, succeeding his gaon father-in-law, Rabbi Itzileh of Volozhin. He was the father-in-law of the gaon Rabbi Chaim of Brisk. Author of Ha’amek She’elah and Ha’amek Davar on the Torah, Rina shel Torah on Shir HaShirim, Meromei Sadeh on the Shas, and Shut Meishiv Davar.
In addition, two almost erased stamps on the title page and one, clearer (on verso of the title page of Yaehl Or) of his son the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Berlin of Volozhin who served as Chief Rabbi of Moscow, and as the Rosh Yeshiva of the famed Volozhin Yeshiva (known as the Mother of Yeshivot). In 1906 he immigrated to Jerusalem, and after the passing of Rabbi Shmuel of Salant, became leader of the Ashkenazic community of Jerusalem, even though he refused the official position.
At the end of the book, references handwritten by Rabbi Chaim Berlin.
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