(CHASSIDISM).

Samuel ben Issachar Baer Segal

Polonnoye

1791-2

Margolioth, Meir ben Tzvi Hirsch, of Ostraha. ‘Or Olam - She’eloth u-Teshuvoth Meir Nethivim. Part One: Legal responsa. Part Two: Discourses on Pentateuch. Appended to Part Two: Halachic novellae on Tractate Berachoth by Author’s brother, Isaac Dov Baer of Jaslowitz

Vinograd, Polonnoye 4

Rare First Edition of Rabbinic Work by Disciple of R. Israel Ba’al Shem Tov. R. Meir Margolioth died April 24, 1790 at Ostraha (Ostrog), Volhynia. Previously, he served as Rabbi of the Lemberg district for forty years. Margolioth was the greatest Talmudic authority of the time to confess discipleship to Rabbi Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, founder of East-European Chassidism. This admission lent considerable prestige to a beleaguered movement. See JE, Vol. VIII, p. 329; EJ, Vol. XI, col. 966; N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, p. 270, no.12903 USE NEXT TIME: Polonnoye became a Chassidic center due to the influence of the outstanding disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and Chassidic thinker, R. Jacob Joseph Hakohen of Polonnoye author of the "Toldoth Ya'akov Yoseph". Many of the printers there were connected to the Chassidic movement. Although the printer's name is not on the title, he is mentioned in the approbations of the Rabbis of Shinava and Yanov