Masecheth Berachoth [Talmudic Tractate]

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(CHASSIDISM).

printer

Moshe Shapiro

Place

Slavuta

Publication

1817-1818

Description

Two divisional titles (Rav Alfas and Mishnayoth Seder Zera'im). Brimming on every page with rabbinic marginalia, Aschkenazic cursive in faded sepia ink

references

Vinograd, Slavuta 139; Rabbinowicz, Ma'amar al Hadpasath ha-Talmud, pp. 131-2

summary

The book bears the Haskamoth (endorsements) of Chassidic luminaries Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apta (Opatow), Israel ben Levi Isaac of Pikov, Mordecai ben Pinchas of Koretz (Korzec); as well as the Lithuanian Rabbis Chaim Hakohen of Pinsk, and Samuel of Karlin and Antopol

ff. (2), 2-137; 64; 58, 61-62, 61-70. (Mispaginated but complete.) Contemporary mottled calf. Folio

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