Friedlander, Aaron Meir. Sepher Avreich [commentary to Psalms, along with Chassidic discourses]

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 145
(CHASSIDISM).

Friedlander, Aaron Meir. Sepher Avreich [commentary to Psalms, along with Chassidic discourses]

FIRST EDITION ff. 64. Browned, trimmed. Later calf backed boards. 8vo

Munkacs: Blayer and Kohn 1893

Est: $700 - $900
The author (1827-1875), an extraordinary child prodigy, composed this work aged just nine years - and according to the approbation of R. Alexander Lipe of Zhidechoiv, accomplished it in just nine hours! R. Chaim of Sanz tested him when he was Bar Mitzvah age and compared his precocity to that of the Gaon of Vilna. See Y. Raphael, Encyclopedia LeChassiduth, cols. 226-7