Horowitz, Naphtali Tzvi of Ropshitz. Zera Kodesh [Chassidic discourses on Torah, Holidays and the Hagadah]

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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Horowitz, Naphtali Tzvi of Ropshitz. Zera Kodesh [Chassidic discourses on Torah, Holidays and the Hagadah]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Two parts bound in one volume. With approbations of R. Joseph Saul Nathanson and R. Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. ff. (2), 124; (1), 120. Browned, previous owners’ signatures and stamp (including Moshe Chodosh of Berditchev). Contemporary boards, rubbed. 4to. Stefansky, Chassiduth 208.

Lemberg: U. Z. Salat 1868

Est: $6,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,000

Born on the day that the Baal Shem Tov died and a disciple of R. Elimelech of Lizhensk, R. Menachem Mendel of Rymanov and the Chozeh of Lublin, R. Naphtali Tzvi of Ropshitz (1760-1827) was a crucial figure in the development of Galician Hassidism and is said to have had tens of thousands of followers. His children, who founded their own dynasties, were Rebbe Avraham Chaim of Linsk, Rebbe Yaakov of Melitz, Rebbe Eliezer of Dzhikov, and Ratza, wife of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya Rubin of Ropshitz. The dynastic offshoots of the Ropshitz dynasty founded by R. Naphtali Tzvi are most extensive.