Eichenstein, Yehudah Tzvi of Rozdal. Amud HaTorah [Chassidic discourses]

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Lot 54
(CHASSIDISM)

Eichenstein, Yehudah Tzvi of Rozdal. Amud HaTorah [Chassidic discourses]

<<FIRST EDITION>> ff. (1), 93 (i.e. 91). Browned and stained, with signatures and stamps of previous owners, small hole on title not affecting text. Loose in contemporary boards, spine taped. 4to. Vinograd, Lemberg 1166; Stefansky, Chassiduth, no. 465.

Lemberg: M. F. Poremba 1853

Est: $800 - $1,000
The author (1791-1847), was the son of R. Moshe Eichenstein of Sambor and son-in-law of R. Tzvi Hirsch Eichenstein of Zydachov and the father of Yehudah Tzvi Eichenstein, of Rozdal. He was considered the foremost exponent and kabbalistic expositor of the Zydachov dynasty. Amud HaTorah was published posthumously by his wife and his son-in-law R. Yecheskel Shraga Halberstam (later known as the Shinaver Rav), who inherited his father-in-law’s position in Rozdal. Contains an important approbation by R. Chaim Halberstam of Sanz extolling its “wondrous kabbalistic virtues.” Uncommonly, the final leaf contains an afterword signed by the author’s widow, Sarah. See Z. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996), pp. 107-8.