Auction 59 Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Feb 20, 2018 (Your local time)
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LOT 102:

Yismach Lev (Meor Einayim) - Second Edition - Zhovkva, 1800

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Yismach Lev, Chassidic homilies on Talmudic aggadot, by R. Menachem Mendel of Chernobyl. [Zhovkva, 1800]. Second edition. Printed approximately two years after the first edition in Slavita (1798).
Indistinct inscriptions on the title page. Ownership inscriptions on the last page. The leaf before the title page contains the signature of R. "Shmuel ben R. Y.L. Deutch" (died 1944. He was a scholar and Kabbalist and was counted among the great men of Jerusalem. His disciple was R. Amram Blau, founder of Neturei Karta in Jerusalem).
Bound with: Chiddushei HaRan on Tractate Rosh Hashanah. Jerusalem, 1871. Printed by R. Eliezer Dan Ralbag, R. Binyamin Beinish Salant and R. Yoel Moshe Salomon. First edition from the manuscript. The last page contains a listing of the manuscripts available in Jerusalem, as well as a drawing of the Western Wall.
28 leaves; [2], 23, [1] leaves. 19 cm. Yismach Lev is in fair-poor condition. Margins cut flush with the text; with damage to text. Two leaves (2, 18) have tears with significant damage to text. Chiddushei HaRan is in excellent condition. Old binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 238.

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