CHAIM OF CZERNOWITZ. Siduro shel Shabbath [meditations to the Sabbath]

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Lot 72

(CHASSIDISM)

CHAIM OF CZERNOWITZ. Siduro shel Shabbath [meditations to the Sabbath]

Two parts in one volume. Two titles ff. 69, 44. Stained, inscriptions, signatures and stamps of previous ownners on title and verso of final leaf, including Rabbi Meyer Schwartzman of Winnipeg. Recent boards. 4to Vinograd, Zhitomir 70

Zhitomir: The Brothers Shapira 1849

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $300

The books of R. Chaim Tyrer (1770-1816), known as “R. Chaim of Czernowitz,” remain to this day favorites of Hungarian, Russian and Polish chassidim, particularly his commentary on the Pentateuch, “Be’er Mayim Chaim.” R. Chaim was a disciple of R. Yechiel Michel of Zloczov. See Tz. M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996) p. 78. Interestingly enough, the second part of the book was printed a year before the first part. See Sh. Ch. Porush, Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1980), p. 613