Divrei Moshe (Dolyna) – Lviv, 1887 – Copy of R. Chaim Yitzchak Halberstam, Av Beit Din of Slotfina (Son-in-Law of ...

Divrei Moshe (Dolyna) – Lviv, 1887 – Copy of R. Chaim Yitzchak Halberstam, Av Beit Din of Slotfina (Son-in-Law of Atzei Chaim of Sighet)

Divrei Moshe, Chassidic and Kabbalistic discourses on the Torah portions, by R. Moshe Shoham, Av Beit Din of Dolyna (student of the Baal Shem Tov). Lviv: Shmuel Katz, 1887.

Approbations of the Imrei Baruch of Vizhnitz, the Shoel UMeshiv of Lviv, the Kedushat Yom Tov of Sighet, the Imrei Yosef of Spinka and Rebbe Moshe Panet of Deyzh.

Copy of R. Chaim Yitzchak Halberstam, Av Beit Din of Slotfina (Solotvyno). His stamps appear on the title page and first leaf: "Chaim Yitzchak Eizik Halberstam, Av Beit Din of Slotfina and the region". Additional stamps: "Meir Asher son of R. Yitzchak Aryeh Tabak from Bistre" [apparently of the family of the Erech Shai of Sighet]; "Naftali Tzvi Heller, Leordina" [mentioned in list of pre-subscribers at the end of the book Girsa DeYankuta, Sighet 1900]. Handwritten signature on the title page: "R. Shlomo, shochet". R. Chaim Yitzchak Eizik Halberstam (ca. 1899 – perished in the Holocaust 2nd Sivan, 1944), eldest son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, the Atzei Chaim of Sighet. Son of Rebbe Yehoshua Halberstam of Dolyna (descendant of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz). After his marriage he was a member of the household of his father-in-law, the Atzei Chaim. In 1925 he was accepted as Av Beit Din of Slotfina (Solotvyno) and the region, establishing a prominent yeshiva there numbering hundreds of students. After the untimely passing of his father-in-law the Atzei Chaim (in 1926), R. Chaim Yitzchak Eizik became the central figure of the family, and he appointed his younger brother-in-law, R. Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum, as Rebbe and Av Beit Din in Sighet. He edited and printed the books of his father-in-law, the Atzei Chaim. He perished in the Holocaust with his community, his wife and nine of his children. His two oldest daughters survived and established important rabbinic families in the United States.

[2], 54, [6] leaves. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and light wear. Marginal tears to title page and several other leaves, reinforced with tape. Stamps. New leather binding.