Complete in 12 volumes. With numerous commentaries.Includes commentary Meir Netiv not published in standard Vilna Shas * Plus sets of seven volumes of Zhitomir Alfasi and Talmud Yerushalmi -total of 19 volumes

(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN)

Chanina Lipa and Yehoshuah Heschel Shapira

Zhitomir

1858-1864

Each volume with two individual titles within typographical and architectural borders printed in red and black

Vinograd, Zhitomir 235; Rabbinovicz, Talmud pp. 140-1

After the fiasco of of the Slavita - Vilna controversy, the third generation of the Shapiro family moved their press and produced their edition of theTalmud in Zhitomir. Many Chassidic Rabbis encouraged their followers only to study the Talmud printed by the Shapiro Brothers as they were of impeccable Chassidic geneaology - the grandchildren of R. Pinchos of Koretz. It is felt that an aura of holiness pervades the work of this family, especially the brothers from Slavita, who “ran the gauntlet,” as explained in the lot describing the Slavita edition.