CHAIM BEN MENACHEM MENDEL HAGER OF KOSOV. Torath Chaim [discourses to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 82

(CHASSIDISM)

CHAIM BEN MENACHEM MENDEL HAGER OF KOSOV. Torath Chaim [discourses to the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION ff. (1), 5-39, 7, (2). Ex-library, trace stained, two leaves shorter. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Lemberg 1281; regarding the female printer see Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, p.271

Lemberg: Feige Grossman 1855

Est: $500 - $700

The author (1795-1854) was the oldest son of R. Menachem Mendel of Kosov. He was maried to the celebrated Zipporah, renowned for her piety, of whom R. Israel of Ruzhyn was to proclaim “(she) is the most righteous person in the world" (see T. M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism p. 164). This copy contains two leaves of addenda and corrections not recorded by either Vinograd or S. C. Porush, Encyclopedia LeChassiduth (1980) col. 596