Drush on the Torah and on the Mitzvot - Warsaw, 1836 - Copy of Rebbe Kalonymus Kalmish Shapiro of Piasetchna ...

Drush on the Torah and on the Mitzvot - Warsaw, 1836 - Copy of Rebbe Kalonymus Kalmish Shapiro of Piasetchna, Author of Chovat HaTalmidim
Drush on the Torah and on the Mitzvot, by R. Yehuda Loew of Prague (the Maharal of Prague). Warsaw, 1836. Copy of Rebbe Kalonymus Kalmish Shapiro of Piasetchna (Piaseczno). His stamps appear on the title page: "Kalonymus Kalmish Shapiro son of R. E, Piasetchna, Warsaw region". Rebbe Kalonymus Kalmish Shapiro of Piasetchna (1889-1943) was a holy and pure, profound and original Torah scholar. He was the son of Rebbe Elimelech of Grodzhisk, and son-in-law of Rebbe Yerachmiel Moshe Hopstein of Kozhnitz. A foremost Chassidic thinker during WWII and prior to it. An exemplary educator, who invested all his energy in his disciples and in educating the young generation. His original books earnt him worldwide renown: Chovat HaTalmidim for young men (Warsaw 1932, the only book published in his lifetime), Hachsharat HaAvreichim, Mevo She'arim, Derech HaMelech, Bnei Machshava Tova, and his personal diary Tzav VeZiruz. His books are a unique blend of Chabad doctrine, with Karlin and Kozhnitz thought, original profundity with passionate yearning. His most poignant book is the historic Aish Kodesh, a powerful book containing the sermons he delivered and recorded during the Holocaust, 1940-1942, within the Warsaw ghetto. This book offers a heart-rending portrayal of the depth of emotional torment believing Jews such as himself underwent in the Divine Concealment of the Holocaust. In 1943, he buried his writings in a milk flask in the ghetto ground, and they were miraculously unearthed during excavations of the ghetto area several years after the war. Following the Warsaw uprising, the Rebbe was deported together with the remaining Jews to the Trawniki concentration camp near Lublin, where they were murdered on 5th Cheshvan, 1943. In 1909, he was appointed rebbe of Piasetchna, near Warsaw, and from 1913, he served as rabbi of the town. In 1923, he opened the Daat Moshe yeshiva in Warsaw, where he served as yeshiva dean. He invested all his strength in his yeshiva, and devoted himself to each student personally. In his yeshiva, he emerged as an outstanding educator, with a sensitive psychological understanding and the ability to penetrate his disciples' souls. Other signatures on title page and subsequent leaf: "Yaakov Eiserland"; "Avraham Eiserland". 32 leaves. Two title pages. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Worming. Stains. New binding. The last page contains a "Commentary on an essay in the Derech HaChaim book, in a marginal note", printed here for the first time, anonymously, and its author was hitherto unidentified. Nevertheless, we discovered after some research that it was written by Rebbe Shraga Feivel of Gritza (Grójec), since this gloss was printed verbatim in Mish'enet Moshe (Piotrkow 1909, p. 8), with the title: "From R. Shraga Feivel who was the rabbi of Gritza and was later appointed as rabbi of Makova, where he was buried". The note mentions "my father-in-law", in reference to R. Yitzchak of Warka. This note was later published in Ohel Yitzchak - selected teaching of Rebbe Yitzchak of Warka (Piotrkow 1914, section 268).