Tikunei HaZohar – Warsaw, 1885 – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, With Stamp from his Jerusalem Period, And ...

Tikunei HaZohar – Warsaw, 1885 – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, With Stamp from his Jerusalem Period, And Kvitel Inscriptions

Tikunei HaZohar, with commentary Kise Melech, by the Kabbalist R. Shalom Buzaglo (author of Mikdash Melech). [Warsaw: J. Berger, 1885. On title page: "as printed in Brody".

Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. On the title page is an ownership stamp from the Rebbe's stay in Jerusalem (ca. 1946, before he immigrated to the United States): "Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Satmar and the region – in Jerusalem". With bibliographic inscriptions made while arranging the Rebbe's library in the United States.

On the front endpaper appears an inscription of several names to be mentioned before the Rebbe for blessing and salvation – Kvitels written by Chassidim in the book their Rebbe had the practice of reading every month of Elul.

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.

[1], 2-113, 119-125, 121-194, 6 leaves. 22.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and light wear. Light tears. Reinforcing tape on the reverse side of the title page and on the endpapers. Inscriptions and stamps. Fine new leather binding.