CHAIM TRYEZR OF CZERNOWITZ. Eretz HaChaim Part I: [novellae to Tactate Berachoth]. Part II:[homilies to the Bible.]

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CHAIM TRYEZR OF CZERNOWITZ. Eretz HaChaim Part I: [novellae to Tactate Berachoth]. Part II:[homilies to the Bible.]

Two works bound together in one. FIRST EDITIONS. Verso of the first title lists subscribers' - prominent Rabbis of the Ruzhin Chassidic dynasy I: (2), 79. * II: (2), 30. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf citing the cost of the paper and the binding. Stained. Contemporary boards, worn and rebacked. 8vo Vinograd, Czernowitz 195, 196; Y. Y. Cohen, Hadefus Ha-Ivri Be-Czernowitz in Aresheth vol. 3, (1961), p. 320, no.122, 123 (discussing that this is indeed the true first edition);

Czernowitz : J. Eckhardt 1861

Est: $150 - $250

PRICE REALIZED $300

The author, popularly know as R. Chaim of Czernowitz (1760-1818) was a disciple of R. Yechiel Michel of Zloczov and also greatly influenced by the Apter Rav, Abraham Joshua Heschel. His magnum opus was a commentary to the Pentateuch, “Be’er Mayim Chaim.” See S. C. Porush, Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1980) col. 601-2 and Tz. M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996) p. 196