Chaim ben Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosov. Torath Chaim [discourses to the Chumash].

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Lot 84
(CHASSIDISM).

Chaim ben Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosov. Torath Chaim [discourses to the Chumash].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. (1), 5-39, 7, (2). Ex-library, trace stained, two leaves shorter. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 4to. Vinograd, Lemberg 1281; regarding the female printer see Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, p. 271.

Lemberg: Feige Grossman 1855

Est: $400 - $600
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The author (1795-1854) was the oldest son of R. Menachem Mendel of Kosov. He was maried to the celebrated Zipporah, renowned for her piety, of whom R. Israel of Ruzhyn was to proclaim “(she) is the most righteous person in the world" (see T. M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism p. 164). This copy contains two leaves of addenda and corrections not recorded by either Vinograd or S. C. Porush, Encyclopedia LeChassiduth (1980) col. 596.