Auction 62 Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Aug 28, 2018
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LOT 149:

Divrei Chaim (Sanz) Responsa – First Edition – Lviv, 1875 – Signatures and Stamps

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Divrei Chaim (Sanz) Responsa – First Edition – Lviv, 1875 – Signatures and Stamps
Divrei Chaim responsa, Parts 1-2, by R. Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. Lviv: Avraham Yitzchak Mankish, 1875. First edition printed in the lifetime of the author, who also proofread parts of the book, continued by his grandsons before printing.
"I have compiled… from my responsa which I expounded with leading Torah scholars of our days… Chaim, Rabbi of Sanz. Edited by the rabbis, grandsons of the author".
The title page bears deleted stamps of Rabbi "Elazar Natan Kahana Shapira" [ca. 1820-Kislev 1917. Leader of the Chassidic community in Jerusalem in the second half of the 19th century. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in the early 1840s - together with his father, R. Yechiel Asher Shmuel Kahana Shapira Rabbi of Zalin who died in 1852 - and is the predecessor of the Kahana-Shapira family in Jerusalem].
Ownership inscription [from 1922] signed by R. "Mordechai Gimpel son of R. Avraham"; signature of R. "Yechiel Heller son of R. Avraham Meir of Koidanovo, now of Petach Tikva".
[2], 134; [4], 120 leaves. 38 cm. Brittle paper. Good-fair condition. Stains on title page of Part 1. Wear and tears. Most pages are in good condition (coarse closed tears to leaves 37-38 of Part 2). Binding with damaged leather spine.
Stefansky Chassidut, No. 118.

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