Auction 68

Rare Variant! Chumash Ein Hasofer, Small Volume Pocket-Format - after the Passing of the Raveh Rodelheim Without the Year of Printing

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Miniature volume containing all the Parashiyot of the Torah "Chumash Ein Hasofer is Ezrat Hasofer is Tikkun Vavei HaAmudim" – Ezrat Hasofer, a Tikkun Korim to help the scribe write a Sefer Torah with all the columns beginning with the letter Vav. With the Haftarot and Chamesh Megillot Edited by Rabbi Binyamin Wolf Heidenheim, the Raveh. 

Printed in Rodelheim. The year of printing is not noted. However, it is clear it was printed after the passing of the Raveh, who is referred to by the title page as "the late Rav" ("מאת הרב המנוח המדקדק הגדול…").  

Extremely rare!

This item is not in the National Library or other libraries and does not appear in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Some auction houses thought by mistake that it is a copy of the Warsaw 1865 edition, which is identical in content but not in form. 

[1], 264 (every leaf appears on two open pages), [3], 64; 24 leaves. On leaf [2-3], Otiyot Rabbati and Otiyot Ze’iri of the Torah, Seder Keriay Parashiyot haMo’adim. Both from the Ein Hasofer Chumash – Rodelheim, 1818-1821. Leaf [2b]: a comment on Shemot Mesupakim bein Kodesh Lechol. A special title page for Seder Hahaftarot and an additional one for Chamesh Megillot. On leaf 63-63: Kitzur Dinei Keriat HaTorah by the editor. 

Pocket-format: 9X13 cm. Fine ancient leather binding, scuffed and worn. Unravelled spine. Greenish edges. Stains and signs of usage. Good overall condition.