(“The Ba’al Haphla’ah.”) Peirush ha-RITV"A ve-Tosphoth RI"D al Masecheth Kidushin

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

Horowitz, PinCHas

printer

Baruch Buchbinder

Place

Berlin

Publication

1715

Description

THE R. PINCHAS HOROWITZ OF FRANKFURT COPY. With signature on the title-page of his son (Meir) Ya’akov ben ha-Gaon...Pinchas HaLevi ...Horowitz. Also with inscription on f. 76a, "Ha-Ritva shayach le-ha-Gaon ha-Gadol, Mofeth ha-Dor, K[evod] ha-Rav R. Pinchas Segal"

references

Vinograd, Berlin 77

summary

The highly respected scholar, Chassidic master and revered sage, Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz (1730-1805), known as the Ba'al Haphla'ah, was Rabbi of the Polish communities of Witkow and Lechwitz before accepting the call to serve as Rabbi of Frankfurt from 1771-1805. A disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch, a contemporary of R. Nathan Adler and teacher of the Chatham Sopher, Horowitz was one of the great scholars of his generation

ff. 110. Stamp of previous owner, edges frayed with some repair. Modern calf. 4to

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