A commentary on 613 mitzvot, how to carry them out in thought, speech, and action, printed with an exegesis on 58 mitzvot in line with the ‘two lives’ of our rabbis, the rest of the work was lost. By the Holy Admor Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Shapira of Dinov, the Bnei Yissachar.
Lemberg, 1856. Second Edition.
This edition is Very Rare! Seemingly has never been offered at public auction.
[1], 74, 79-91 Leaves. Mispaginated. 24.5 Cm.
Title & first pages with partly erased signature ”Rafael son of Rabbi…”Most probably the signature of The Gaon Rabbi Refael Zilberman, rabbi of Safed.
Title page with several signatures of the Gaon Rabbi David Zvi Schneebalg from his youth years. Inner binding has a interesting inscription by his son R. Chaim about these signatures.
The Gaon Rabbi David Zvi Schneebalg (1893-1968) was the son of Rabbi Chaim. He was a head of the Vizhnitz yeshiva and a Dayan in Vizhnitz between the two world wars. After WWII he served as rabbi of the orthodox community in Manchester. In 1923 the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Hager of Vizhnitz established the Damesek Eliezer yeshiva, which replaced the yeshiva closed because of the war. He appointed Rabbi Schneebalg to lead it. The original was the largest yeshiva in Bukovina, and at its peak around 150 students studied there from various places in Romania. With the outbreak of WWII, it was closed and the residents were moved to ghettos.
When he was in the ghetto he established (with Rabbi Baruch Hager, later the Admor Mekor Baruch of Seret-Vizhnitz) a beit din for agunot. Later he was sent to Trans-nistria (next to Moldova). After the war he immigrated to Britain and was appointed rabbi of the “Mehzikei HaDat” community in Manchester. At the end of his life he moved to Israel and lived in Bnei Brak. After his death he was buried in the Zichron Meir cemetery there. His divrei torah were published in the Sefer “Tzemach LeDavid”.
The Gaon Rabbi Refael Zilberman (1839-1917), Rabbi of Safed.
Ownership inscription of R. Moshe Yehuda Leib Rosenfeld of Turek.
Signature: Yosef Schorr.
Several antique short marginal notations.
Rebbi Zvi Elimelech of Dinov (1783-1841), one of the great chassidic leaders, known primarily by the title the Bnei Yisaschar after the name of his Sefer that is known for it’s holiness and was especially beloved by the great chassidic leaders of all the generations. In addition, he wrote a large range of Seforim on all disciplines of the Torah – Igra D’Pirka, Derech Pikudecha, Ma’ayan Ganim and others.
Good condition, water stains, later binding.
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