Beit Yaakov (Izhbitza-Radzin) – Warsaw-Lublin, 1890-1937 / Lublin, 1906 – First Editions

Beit Yaakov (Izhbitza-Radzin) – Warsaw-Lublin, 1890-1937 / Lublin, 1906 – First Editions

Two editions of Beit Yaakov on the Torah, by Rebbe Yaakov Mordechai Leiner of Radzin.

• Beit Yaakov, homilies on Bereshit, Shemot, Vayikra and festivals, by the first rebbe of Radzin, Rebbe Yaakov Mordechai Leiner, son of Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izhbitza, the Mei HaShiloach. Bereshit: Warsaw: Chaim Kelter, 1890; Shemot: Lublin, Moshe Schneidmesser and Nechamah Herschenhorn, 1903; Vayikra: Lublin: Poped (Warsaw), [1937]. First editions.

Three volumes. Part I: 23; 238 leaves. Part II: 252 leaves. Part III: 166 leaves. 26.5-30 cm. Dry, brittle paper (especially in the second volume). Overall good-fair condition, several leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains (especially to third volume). Tears and open tears (on title page of Part II are open tears around margins of leaf, repaired with paper). Signatures and stamps. Volume I in old leather binding, with new leather spine and endpaper; volumes II and III in new bindings.

Does not contain Likutei Divrei Torah by Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Radzin, son of the author, at the end of volume III ([1], 3, [2] leaves).

• Beit Yaakov, homilies on the Five Books of the Torah and festivals, by Rebbe Yaakov Leiner of Radzin. Lublin: Moshe Schneidmesser and Nechamah Herschenhorn, 1906.
A different edition, containing homilies on the Five Books of the Torah and festivals, in one volume. Contains new additions from manuscript.

[3], 2-77 leaves. 28.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, affecting text, repaired with paper. Large open tear, affecting text to one leaf, repaired with paper containing missing text (apparently from another copy). Light worming. New binding.

Rebbe Yaakov Mordechai Leiner of Izhbitza (1818?-1878), son of Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Leiner, the Mei HaShiloach and founder of the Izhbitza dynasty. He succeeded his father in Izhbitza, and moved to Radzin, for which the dynasty was subsequently named and where the rebbes of the dynasty lived until the Holocaust. Beit Yaakov develops and expands upon the unique thought presented in Mei HaShiloach by Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Leiner.

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