Chofetz Chaim [“Desirer of Life”]

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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

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Lot 181

(KAGAN, YISRAEL MEIR OF RADIN).

Chofetz Chaim [“Desirer of Life”]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> With the scarce, eight-page list of subscribers - a most interesting record of names of the Chofetz Chaim’s earliest followers. pp. 162, (8). Previous owners’ marks, discolored, trace marginal worming. Contemporary boards, rebacked. 4to. Friedberg, Cheth 1085; Weiner 4331.

Vilna: H. Dvorzetz 1873

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

<<First Edition of this Pioneering halachic work>> on the laws of lashon-hara and rechiluth (derogatory speech and malicious gossip. Published anonymously, the author R. Israel Meir Kagan (1838-1933) was later acclaimed as the preeminent Halachic decisor and “tzaddik” of his generation. Today, he is universally referred as the Chofetz Chaim, after the title of this ground-breaking work.