Auction 68
Lot 120:
1. Likutei Yekarim, Divrei Torah by four leading Chassidic rabbis: the Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid of Mezeritch, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Premishlan and the Maggid of Zlotchov. In addition, printed here for the first time, according to the title page – Seder Pidyon Nefesh, the more precise. Printed in Lemberg, 1857. 34, 33-34, [1] leaves. Important approbations from the first edition.
Complete letters by Rabbi Meshulam Feibush of Zbarizh, author of Yosher Divrei Emet, were printed here, titled: מכתבי הצדיק מהו’ פייביש מזבריז (leaf 19a).
2. Sefer Or Hachaim, a work against the study of philosophy by Rabbi Yosef Yavetz, with the Mayan Ganim glosses and comments by the Admor Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Shapira of Dinov, the Bnei Yissachar. Printed in Premishla, 1883. [1], 28 leaves. Bound after the title page are two leaves of the work Kli Haro’im on Sefer Ovadya.
Old binding, incomplete ancient leather spine. Moth perforations and damage. Sooty on the outside. Fair overall condition.
Stamps of the Admorim of Nadvorna: on the title pages, stamps of "בנימן בהר"י לייפער אונגוואר יע"א" – apparently, the Admor Rabbi Binyamin Leifer ben Rabbi Yechiel of Marush and Mihalov, of the family of the Admorim of Nadvoran-Temeshvar, a local Admor in Klausenburg. Perished in the Holocaust.
On the two title pages, stamps of "אהרן ארי’ לייפער קלויזענבורג" and a handwritten signature – apparently, the son of the aforementioned or his brother the Admor Rabbi Aharon Aryeh Leifer of Nadvorna-Temeshvar, the son-in-law of Rabbi Elazar Elimelech Waldman of Bardejov and later of Jerusalem. Passed away in Nissan 1963.
On the flyleaf and last page, stamps of "מרדכי יהודה שלמה זלמן וויזניצער אב"ד דקה"י [דקהל יראים] אראד יצ"ו" – Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda Shlomo Zalman Vizhnitzer – Chassid and close to the Admorim the Ahavat Yisrael and the Damesek Eliezer of Vizhnitz. Rav and Rosh Yeshiva of Borod under the communists. Worked with the Admor of Skolen for the children of Romania. Immigrated to Israel and served as Rosh Yeshiva of Antinia in Bnei Berak. See: Doresh LeZion [Bnei Berak, 1996].
On the title page, a blurred notation and on the second title page, an ownership notation: "קניתי מהוני… אברהם שמחה קליין ליטשיק"-?.
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