Sha’ar Yoseph [ethical sermons]

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 216

CHAVER, YOSEPH BEN YITZCHAK EIZIK

Sha’ar Yoseph [ethical sermons]

The author’s personal wide-margined copy, with his scholarly marginal notes. <<* Bound in at end:>> Autograph Manuscript, ten leaves (see below). Stamp of the author’s brother, Moshe Rabinowitz. ff. 66. Ex-library, some staining, marginal repairs. Contemporary half-calf marbled boards, rubbed. Large 4to.

Johannisburg, Germany: 1852

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Rabbi of Kinishin, the author was the son of R. Yitzchak Eizik Chaver (1789-1852), the prime student of R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov, follower of the Vilna Gaon. See Rabotheinu Shebagolah Vol. I (1996) pp. 9-14. The autograph manuscript bound in at the end of the volume contains a sermon for Rosh Hashanah delivered at Kinishin, 1854; along with eulogies for the author’s father and other prominent rabbis who died at this time (1852-54). Including: R. Aryeh Leib of Kovna, R. Eliezer, Dayan of Horadna and R. Meir Halevi of Brainsk. The author published two eulogies for his father: Nefesh Naki (Warsaw, 1853) and Zion Lanefesh (Johannisburg, 1856). The second eulogy contains much of the material written in this manuscript with variations and expansions in places.