Shas Ha’masbir- Masechta Berachoth. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc. Prepared and with a commentary by Joseph Shapotshnick (London, England) and Shalom Isaac Levitan (Kristania, Norway)

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Lot 178

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN).

Shas Ha’masbir- Masechta Berachoth. With commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc. Prepared and with a commentary by Joseph Shapotshnick (London, England) and Shalom Isaac Levitan (Kristania, Norway)

Additional title within architectural arch with vignettes of manuscripts consulted in the preparation of this volume pp. 100. Few light stains in places. Contemporary royal-blue roan backed cloth boards, rubbed at extremities. Elephant Folio cf. Rabinowitz pp. 186-8

London: M. Tschetinsky 1923

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

Published as an addendum to his Shas Ha’gadol She’ba’gedolim (London, 1919), this volume contains additional unpublished manuscript material not published elsewhere; viz: manuscript notes of R. Joseph Saul Nathanson of Lemberg; Mekor Baruch by R. Chaim Baruch of Lentchna, a disciple of R. Jonathan Eybescheutz; R. Meir Jechiel of Ostravtsa and his son R. Jechezkel. A most outspoken nonconformist, Joseph Shapotshnick was a prolific author on a host of subjects (including science, psychology and music). For more on this maverick English rabbi see H. Rabinowicz, A World Apart: The Story of the Chasidim in Britain (1997) pp.56-66