Tractate Pesachim. The Admor Rabbi Elazar Rosenfeld of Oshpsin's Copy

Tractate Pesachim. The Admor Rabbi Elazar Rosenfeld of Oshpsin's Copy

Tractate Pesachim which was printed at Chernowitz, 1840. Admor Rabbi Elazar Rosenfeld of Oshpisin's stamps.

Specifications: The stamps are on the title page and leaf 3. Some handwritten glosses on the book's pages.

Background: The Admor Rabbi Elazar Rosenfeld of Oshpisin was born in 1862 to his father, Rabbi Yehoshua Rosenfeld, Admor of Kamenka. When he was six he became engaged to the youngest daughter of the author of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, and the wedding was when he was sixteen. The Divrei Chaim passed away before the wedding, and the bride's oldest brother, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga of Shinova, led her to the wedding canopy. In 1897, he was appointed as rabbi of Kamenka and in 1907 as rabbi of Oshpisin, where he was crowned Admor. He immigrated to Israel in 1936 and settled in Safed. He moved to Jerusalem in 1937 and founded a synagogue in the Meah Shearim neighborhood, on Ein Yaakov Street. He had the custom of keeping the second day of Yom Tov (as in the diaspora) in Israel as well. He returned to Poland in 1939 for health reasons. When the war broke out, he was banished to nearby Kshonev, and was subsequently banished with the rest of the Jews to Sosnovets where he passed away in 1943.

Condition: Moderate - poor. The stamps are faded.