Sefer HaPli'ah – Segula Book – Copy of Rabbi Nechemya Alter of Ger

Sefer HaPli'ah – Segula Book – Copy of Rabbi Nechemya Alter of Ger
Sefer HaPli'ah – Sefer HaKaneh, Kabbalistic matters. By Rabbi Avigdor Kara of Prague. Przemyśl, 1883. In the approbations for the book, Rabbi Aharon of Sanz, son of the Divrei Chaim, and the Admor of Husiatyn describe the great segula of having this book at home. At the top of the title page is an owner's inscription signed "Nechemya Alter from Ger". Many stamps of Rabbi "Nechemya Alter of Ger – now in Otwock". Previous owner's stamps: "Yisrael ben R' Katzani – here in Warsaw". Rabbi Nechemya Alter (1875-perished in the Holocaust 1942), son of the Rebbe author of Imrei Emet and father-in-law of the Rebbe author of Lev Simcha. Outstanding Torah scholar in revealed and hidden areas of the Torah. Son-in-law of Rebbe Zvi Hirsh of Łomazy-Kotzk. After World War I, he left Ger and settled in Otwock. In 1925 he immigrated to Safed, before moving to Jerusalem in 1927, where he headed the Sfat Emet Yeshiva. In 1931 he returned to Poland and served as a member of the Va'ad HaRabbanim in Lodz. In 1941, he was smuggled out of the Lodz Ghetto to the Warsaw Ghetto. Remnants of his Torah teachings were printed in Chiddushei Rebbe Nechemya (Jerusalem, 1983). Most of his descendants - except his eldest daughter, Rebbetzin Yuta Henya [mother of the Ger Rebbe], perished in the Holocaust. [4], 85; 74, [4] leaves. 24.5 cm. Brittle paper, good-fair condition, wear and tears. Old binding.