(Karelitz, Avraham Yeshaya, ('The Chazon Ish'). Chazon Ish to Orach Chaim and Hilchoth Niddah [and many matters from the Order of Kodshim].

Auction 98 | Thursday, June 16th, 2022 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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(AUERBACH FAMILY).

(Karelitz, Avraham Yeshaya, ('The Chazon Ish'). Chazon Ish to Orach Chaim and Hilchoth Niddah [and many matters from the Order of Kodshim].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Personal copy of <<R. Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach>> (1883-1954), father of R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. Inscribed by son and brother, R. (Rafael) David Auerbach (1928-87). ff. (3), 64. Browned, leaves loose. Contemporary boards, worn. Folio.

Vilna: 1911

Est: $300 - $500
When R. Karelitz (1878-1953) published his first work in 1911, he was still a young man and relatively unknown. Even decades later, after publishing several more volumes of Chazon Ish, R. Karelitz was hardly known outside a small circle of rabbinical elites in Vilna. Upon migrating to Mandatory Palestine in 1933, he became a trusted authority among scrupulously observant farmers. It was only in the early 1940s that he emerged as the leading rabbinical figure of his generation and a key visionary of Chareidi society in Israel. R. Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1883-1954) served as the Rosh Yeshiva of Sha'ar HaShomayim, an Ashkenazic yeshivah in Jerusalem that studied both exoteric (nigleh) and esoteric (nistar) aspects of the Torah. He also authored Chacham Lev, a halachic work on marital law. He is perhaps best known as the father of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, the leading rabbinical authority in Israel during the last decades of the 20th century. The book was inherited by his son, R. Rafael David Auerbach (1920-1987), who also led the Sha'ar HaShomayim yeshiva.