Auction 54 Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Feb 7, 2017 (Your local time)
Israel
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LOT 135:

Tehillim of the Spinka Rebbe R. Ya'akov Yosef Weiss

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Book of Tehillim, with the Tehillot Maharitz (Dushinsky) commentary. Jerusalem, Tishrei 1972. First edition. Ownership inscription of "R. Ya'akov Yosef Weiss of Spinka - 13 Donnolo St. Bnei Brak". Handwritten dedication "In honor of the Rebbe", signed (as in a Kvitel): "Ya'akov Eliezer son of Freida Malka".
Personal copy of the Bnei Brak Spinka Rebbe, R. Ya'akov Yosef Weiss (1916-1988), greatest of the Spinka rebbes in the post-Holocaust generation. Grandson of the author of Chakal Yitzchak. After the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of his first wife and three children, R. Weiss was appointed Rebbe and wed his cousin, daughter of R. Abish Horwitz of Krula. He re-established the Spinka Chassidism in the US, in Bnei Brak and in Jerusalem. In 1969, he founded the Spinka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak becoming one the leading rebbes there.
[4], 244, [8] leaves. 24 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Signs of much use. Original fabric binding, slightly worn.

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