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May 15, 2019 (Your local time)
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LOT 124:

Darash Moshe – Kraków, 1589 – Copy of the Kabbalist Rabbi Natan Adler of Frankfurt, Teacher of the Chatam Sofer

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Darash Moshe, commentary on Talmudic Aggadot, by R. Moshe of Bisenz (Bzenec). Kraków: Isaac son of Aaron Prostitz, [1589].
Copy previously owned by R. Natan Adler. On the back endpaper, several ownership inscriptions, including one lengthy one: "Belongs to the Torah leader, exceptional rabbi, outstanding in Torah and piety, perspicacious and sharp-witted, R. Natan son of R. Shimon Adler Katz".
Handwritten glosses (in Ashkenazic script) in two places (pp. 11b and 70a).
R. Natan HaKohen Adler Katz (1742-1800), was born in Frankfurt am Main to R. Yaakov Shimon Adler. He was an outstanding Torah scholar and eminent kabbalist. He headed the yeshiva he established in his home in Frankfurt, and was the prime teacher of R. Moshe Sofer – the Chatam Sofer, who mentions him extensively in his books in matters of Halacha and Kabbalah, referring to him as "My prime teacher, the renowned and pious Torah scholar, the great eagle" (alluding to the name Adler, German for eagle), and other similar titles. He suffered much persecution from the residents of his city, who even forbade him from holding prayers services in his Beit Midrash conforming with his singular kabbalistic customs. He served for a while as rabbi of Boskowitz (Boskovice), yet later returned to his home and Beit Midrash in Frankfurt.
70 [i.e. 71] leaves. Lacking [1] final leaf (of poems in praise of the book). Mispagination. 28.5 cm. Condition varies. Stains. Large, dark stains to title page and three subsequent leaves. Tears to title page, repaired. Most leaves in good-fair condition. Leaves trimmed close to text, slightly affecting text in several leaves. Minor damage. New leather binding.

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