Goral HaGr"a Tana"ch. Magnificent Edition in Excellent Condition with the Original Leather Binding

Goral HaGr"a Tana"ch. Magnificent Edition in Excellent Condition with the Original Leather Binding

Tana"ch - Amsterdam, 1701. "Goral HaGr"a edition" - hand-painted illustrated title page.

Twenty-four. Chamishah Chumshei Torah ... with Nevi'im Rishonim and Acharonim and Ketuvim. Amsterdam, 1701.  This edition was used by Rabbi Aryeh Levin to conduct the 'Goral HaGra.'

The hand-painted title page is illustrated with a copper engraving featuring the figures of Moshe and Aharon. Two additional title pages in Hebrew and Latin script, an introduction in Latin and a six-stanza poem in Hebrew: "The eternal Torah which existed, before any creation was created..."  Two columns per page.

This 1701 edition was used by Rabbi Aryeh Levin to conduct the 'Goral HaGra'  according to the tradition received from the rashei hayeshivah in Volozhin, and whose source is the Gr"a himself.

Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, Rabbi Aharon Kotler and others used the goral to receive answers for questions that were irresolvable through revealed means. Its most famous use was undoubtedly the goral conducted by Rabbi Aryeh Levin in 1950 in order to identify the bodies of twelve of the casualties of the "Convoy of 35" who were unidentifiable by any other methods.

[6], 292 leaves, 293-306, [4] pp. 15 cm.

Excellent condition. Color page cuts. Original magnificent leather binding with imprinted spine.