Chiddushim [Talmudic novellae and responsa]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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ISSACHAR DOV BER BEN ARYEH JUDAH LEIBUSH OF ZLOTCHOV (M’GEZA TZVI).

Chiddushim [Talmudic novellae and responsa]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in more than one cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. <<*>> With description of manuscript contents prepared by Dr. Shlomo Zucker, Jerusalem. ff. 42. Dampsoiled throughout with some loss of text, margins frayed with occasional taped repairs. Modern vellum-backed boards. Folio.

Poland-Russia?: 18th century

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $12,000

An important manuscript of novellae by a leading Chassidic master. Much of the material was published in the author’s work “Bath Eini” (1798), however not all. Also present here is a draft of a responsa (ff. 27-8) which is likely an <<AUTOGRAPH>> in the author’s hand. A foremost student of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev and the Maggid of Mezritch, R. Yissachar Dov Baer (c.1735-1795) was appointed rabbi of Zlotchov. Shortly before his demise he moved to Eretz Israel and is buried in Safed (see M. Wunder, Encyclopedia LeChachmei Galicia, Vol. III, pp. 289-91).