(CHASSIDISM).

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 85

(CHASSIDISM).

Malisov, Hillel Halevi, of Paritch. Likutei Bi'urim. Three writings of R. Dov Baer of Lubavitch ("Mitteler Rebbe") with commentaries by his disciple R. Hillel: Kuntress ha-Hithpa'aluth [Tract on Ecstasy]. * Sha'ar ha-Yichud [Gate of Unity]. * Introduction to Derech Chaim [Way of Life]. (Warsaw: Nathan Schriftgisser, 1868). ff. (1), 67; 52 (lacking ff. 29-32). FIRST EDITION. [Friedberg L-568; A.M. Haberman, "Sha'arei Chabad," Alei Ayin: Salman Schocken Jubilee Volume (1952), 91]. * Bound with: Epstein, Yitzchak Eizik Halevi, of Homel. Ma'amar ha-Shiphluth ve-ha-Simcha [Essay on Lowliness and Happiness] (n.p., 1866). ff. 45, 42, 88-90. FIRST EDITION. Title within typographic border. [Haberman, "Sha'arei Chabad," 114]. * Twersky, Mordechai, of Chernobyl. Likutei Torah. (Tchernowitz, 1860). FIRST EDITION. ff. (1), 63, (1). Lacking title page. ff.35-36 repeated twice. Stamps of former owner, "Shochet u-bodek, David Bachrach." Contemporary cloth, soiled. 4to

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $600

There is perhaps a certain justice in the work of R. Hillel of Paritch (1795-1864) being bound together with that of R. Mordechai of Chernobyl. Before he became an adherent of R. Dov Baer of Lubavitch, R. Hillel was in fact a follower of R. Mordechai of Chernobyl. The journalist Hillel Zeitlin wrote that Ma'amar ha-Shiphluth ve-ha-Simcha by R. Eizik of Homel (1770-1857) is one of the most profound expositions of all Chabad literature. Apart from the Rebbes themselves, the two contemporaries, R. Hillel and R. Eizik, are regarded as the most authoritative interpreters of Chabad philosophy