Amaroth Tehoroth…al Sepher Tehilim [Psalms]. With commentary by <<R. Eliezer Halevi Horowitz of Tarnograd.>>

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(TEHILIM).

Amaroth Tehoroth…al Sepher Tehilim [Psalms]. With commentary by <<R. Eliezer Halevi Horowitz of Tarnograd.>>

Printed on tinted paper. <<FIRST EDITION>> of commentary. Signed by R. Yisroel Halevi Weintraub of Warsaw. ff. (2), 67, 59. Stained in places, occasional marginal wormholes. Modern calf. Lg. 4to. Vinograd, Warsaw 167.

Warsaw: D.L. Sklower 1838

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

<<The first Chassidic commentary to the Tehilim.>> A disciple of R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov and R. Elimelech of Lizhensk, R. Eliezer Halevi Horowitz of Tarnogrod (1740-1806) is renowned for his Chassidic work No’am Megadim. See S.H. Porush, Entziklopedia LeChasiduth, Vol. I (1980) cols. 309-315; Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996) p.219.