(“The Ba’al Haphla’ah.”) Peirush ha-RITV"A ve-Tosphoth RI"D al Masecheth Kidushin

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

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

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Lot 134

Horowitz, PinCHas

(“The Ba’al Haphla’ah.”) Peirush ha-RITV"A ve-Tosphoth RI"D al Masecheth Kidushin

THE R. PINCHAS HOROWITZ OF FRANKFURT COPY. With signature on the title-page of his son (Meir) Ya’akov ben ha-Gaon...Pinchas HaLevi ...Horowitz. Also with inscription on f. 76a, "Ha-Ritva shayach le-ha-Gaon ha-Gadol, Mofeth ha-Dor, K[evod] ha-Rav R. Pinchas Segal" ff. 110. Stamp of previous owner, edges frayed with some repair. Modern calf. 4to Vinograd, Berlin 77

Berlin: Baruch Buchbinder 1715

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

The highly respected scholar, Chassidic master and revered sage, Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz (1730-1805), known as the Ba'al Haphla'ah, was Rabbi of the Polish communities of Witkow and Lechwitz before accepting the call to serve as Rabbi of Frankfurt from 1771-1805. A disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch, a contemporary of R. Nathan Adler and teacher of the Chatham Sopher, Horowitz was one of the great scholars of his generation