Israel ben Samuel of Shklov. Pe’ath ha-Shulchan

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Israel Bak

Safed

1836

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title page. Stamps of Rabbis Abraham David Lavoot of Nikolayev and Moses Nachum Jerusalimski of Kielce ( see N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, p. 324, no. 15589)

Vinograd, Safed 12; Vinograd, Vilna Gaon, no. 1543; Yaari, Safed 11

Discusses the Halachic laws applicable to the Holy Land, based upon Maimonides and in particular the rulings of the author’s mentor, R. Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna. Rabbi Israel ben Samuel of Shklov(1770-1839) was the leader of the Kollel Perushim, the followers of the Vilna Gaon in Eretz Israel. See JE, Vol VI, p. 669; S. Levi, “Rabbi Israel of Shklov,” Sinai III (1939), pp.30-37; L. Jung ed., Men of the Spirit (1964), pp. 63-81. One of six books Israel Bak printed in Safed between the years 1832-1836. See Sh. Halevy, The First Hebrew Books Published in Jerusalem (1975), pp. 15-21 Abraham David Lavoot, rabbi of Nikolayev, Ukraine, disciple of R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (“Tzemach Tzedek”) was a renowned halachist in his own right. He is the maternal ancestor of the late Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch Menachem Mendel Schneerson (II). See M.M. Laufer, Yemei Melech (1991), pp. 39-55