Machzor for Sukkot – Machzor of Rebbe of Valava, Author of Heitev Eitiv

Machzor for Sukkot, with Ivri Teitch commentary and additional commentaries in Yiddish. Lemberg, 1899. Stamps of Rebbe Rabbi “Yisrael Ya’akov Yokel Teitelbaum Av Beit Din of Valava and region”. A Kvitel (handwritten note) containing names for prayer and blessing found between leaves.
Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael Yokel (1840-1924) was educated in home of his grandfather Rabbi Elazar Nissan Teitelbaum in Drohobycz, and in 1854 married his cousin author of Yitav Lev. From 1862 served in the rabbinate of Berbeşti. In 1889 succeeded his father in the Görlitz rabbinate and in 1894 served in town of Valava which is in Marmarosh, Czechoslovakia for approximately thirty years. Edited and prepared for print the Heishiv Moshe Responsa (Lemberg 1866) of his grandfather author of Yismach Lev. His writings in Halacha and Aggada were printed in the book Heitev Eitiv (Brooklyn 1972).
206 pages. 22.5 cm. Fair condition, wear from use and stains. Original worn binding. Placed in matching cardboard case.