Rashash Siddur Sar Shalom and Kavanot for Sefirat HaOmer – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar

Rashash Siddur Sar Shalom and Kavanot for Sefirat HaOmer – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar

Sar Shalom, kavanot for the Passover Seder, Chanukkah and Purim, from Siddur HaRashash [R. Shalom Sharabi], published by HaRav HaSadeh (R. Chaim Shaul Douek HaKohen, dean of the Rechovot HaNahar yeshiva for kabbalists) and R. Eliyahu Yaakov Lajimi. Jerusalem: Lipschitz Brothers, 1912. First edition.

Bound with: Kavanot of Sefirat HaOmer from Siddur HaRashash, published by the Shaar HaShamayim yeshiva, [Jerusalem: Sh. Zuckermann, 1914]. Copy lacking title page. First edition.

Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – on the title page is an ownership stamp of the Rebbe from his stay in Jerusalem (ca. 1946, before he immigrated to the United States): "Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Satmar and the regions – Jerusalem". Contains catalog inscriptions made while arranging the Rebbe's library in the United States (inscriptions on the title page of Sar Shalom and an additional inscription on the first leaf of Kavanat Sefirat HaOmer).

Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979) was the youngest son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov (1836-1904), and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar of his generation, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. At a young age, he was appointed rabbi of Irshava. In 1925, he was appointed rabbi of Karoly (Carei; in place of R. Shaul Brach who went to serve as rabbi of Kashoi), and in 1934, of Satmar (Satu Mare). In all the places he served as rabbi, he also maintained a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of the faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was one of the founding pillars of the Torah world in the generation following the Holocaust. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States, where he established the Satmar Chassidic community. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem, and as leader of Orthodox Jewry in the United States and throughout the world. His writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.

Two books in one volume. Sar Shalom: [1], 1-48, 53 leaves (missing [4] leaves: leaves 49-52; leaves 45-48 are bound twice). Siddur Kavanot Sefirat HaOmer: [3], 2-12, 77 leaves (missing title page and leaf 13). 18.5 cm. Good general condition. Stains and wear. Tears lightly affecting text (affecting Lamnatzeach Menorah on the last page), repaired with tape. Inscriptions. Stamps. Fine new leather binding.