PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim im shnei peirushim ve-im ma’amadoth. With two commentaries of Rashi and , Eliezer Halevi Horowitz, Amaroth Tehoroth

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

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PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim im shnei peirushim ve-im ma’amadoth. With two commentaries of Rashi and , Eliezer Halevi Horowitz, Amaroth Tehoroth

Title in red and black. Additional title. Headpiece and tailpiece. Text in square characters, two commentaries in Rashi script. Separate title for Seder Ma’amadoth. On final page, verses arranged in shape of Menorah, in conformity to kabbalistic practice ff. 4, 3-219, 31, (1). Title and several leaves paper tape repaired. Cloth. 4to Vinograd, Zhitomir 141 (an earlier 1855 edition). Our later edition not found in any of the bibliographic works consulted

Zhitomir: Chanina Lipa and Joshua Heschel Shapira 1857

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

Zhitomir Edition of Chassidic Commentary to Psalms. R. Eliezer Halevi Horowitz of Tarnogrod (1740-1806) is most famous today for his Chassidic work No’am Megadim on the Pentateuch. He was a disciple of R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov. See S.H. Porush, Entziklopedia la-Chasiduth, Vol. I (1980), cols. 309-315; Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996), p.219