Seder Hagadah. With commentary Peirush Peduth Ya'akov by R. Jacob ben Moses of Amstislav

Estimate

$1,500–$2,000

Hammer price

$1,800

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author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Shabthai Slavin

Place

Kopyst

Publication

1835

references

Yudlov 752; Vinograd, Kopyst 137

summary

A rare edition. The book bears the Haskamah of R. Moses ben Hillel ben Benjamin Rivlin ("Velin" is a printer's error) of Shklov. Both Benjamin and his son Hillel Rivlin, had been disciples of the Vilna Gaon. Hillel is famous for his messianic, eschatological work Kol ha-Tor and this Hagadah is suffused with kabbalistic doctrine (not necessarily derived from the Vilna Gaon). On f.14v. the author mentions R. Isaac Luria and R. Samson Ostropolier's mystical interpretation of the Ten Plagues and on ff. 4v. and 5v. (mispaginated 6v.) the author records interpretations of the Hagadah by the Gaon of Vilna

ff. 34. Stained. Cloth. 4to

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