JACOB JOSEPH HAKOHEN OF POLONNOYE. Ben Porath Yosef [homilies to the Book of Genesis, with responsa, discourses and a letter from the Baal Shem Tov to his brother-in-law]
AUCTION 5 |
Tuesday, June 23rd,
1998 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
Lot 69
(CHASSIDISM).
JACOB JOSEPH HAKOHEN OF POLONNOYE. Ben Porath Yosef [homilies to the Book of Genesis, with responsa, discourses and a letter from the Baal Shem Tov to his brother-in-law]
Korzec: Zvi Hirsch ben Aryeh Leib and Samuel ben Issacher Ber Segal 1781
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,750
Fundamental work by the first theoretician of Chassidism. See S.H. Dresner, The Zaddik (1960)