MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES / RaMBa”M). Pe’er HaDor [letters and responsa]. Translated into Hebrew from the Arabic by MORDECHAI Ta Ma. With introduction in Spanish by Jacob Sasportas, and laudatory poems

(CHASSIDISM)

Gerard Johann Janson

Amsterdam

1765

First Edition. Stamps of the bibliophile "Moshe Chalfin." On front-fly, inscriptions of former owner Shneur Zalman Fradkin of Liadi (author of responsa, Torath Chessed)

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1856

R. Shneur Zalman Fradkin was born in Liadi in 1830 (thus his appellation "Rabbi Zalman Ladier") and was principle disciple of R. Menachem Mendel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (author Responsa Tzemach Tzedek), who held him in the very highest esteem. In 1855, R. Shneur Zalman was appointed Rabbi of Polotsk, and in 1868, Rabbi of Lublin. In 1892, he settled in Jerusalem, where he founded and presided over the city's Chassidic Beth Din. He died in Jerusalem in 1902. See H.M. Heilman, Beith Rebbi (Berdichev, 1902), p. 253