EICHENSTEIN, TZVI HIRSCH. Beith Yisrael [kabbalistic homilies to Genesis]

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

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Lot 95

(CHASSIDISM)

EICHENSTEIN, TZVI HIRSCH. Beith Yisrael [kabbalistic homilies to Genesis]

FIRST EDITION. On title, stamps of former owner, "R. Aaron Isaiah Fisch of Sulka." ff. (1), 1-34, 40. Browned, margins chewed (including title), waterstains, tear to f.31. Recent blind-tooled calf. 4to Vinograd, Lemberg 534; Friedberg B-728

(Lemberg): 1834

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

COPY OF REBBE OF SULKA. R. Tzvi Hirsch Eichenstein (1763-1831) founded the Zydachov Chassidic dynasty. His primary mentor was R. Jacob Isaac Horowitz, the "Seer of Lublin." R. Tzvi Hirsch was considered the outstanding kabbalist of the Chassidim, his most famous work being "Atereth Tzvi" (Lemberg, 1834), a commentary on the Zohar. Two of his disciples were his nephew R. Isaac Safrin of Komarno and R. Meir Leibush Malbim. See Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism, pp. 107-8.