Moshe Kliers. Torath Ha’aretz.

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 186
(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Moshe Kliers. Torath Ha’aretz.

Autograph Hebrew Manuscript. pp. 665. Modern calf. Rectangular 8vo.

(Tiberias): c. 1925

Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Large manuscript, a halachic novellae on the laws pertaining to the Land of Israel, focusing upon issues such as Terumah and Shemitah. A Slonimer Chossid born in Tzfat, Moshe Kliers (1874-1934) was a rabbi in Tiberias and a scholar with particular expertise in the laws pertaining to the Land of Israel. In 1925 he published an extensive halachic work on this subject under the title Torath Ha’aretz. This is the original manuscript of a number of chapters from Part II of that work.