Auction 49 · Lot 80

Shneur Zalman of LiadI. Tanya - Likutei Amarim

Estimate: $8,000–$10,000
Hammer price: $8,500

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author

(CHASSIDISM)

printer

Mordechai Rabinstein

Place

Zolkiew

Publication

1799

Description

Second Edition. With the Haskamoth of R. Moses Zevi Hirsch Meisels of Zolkiew and R. Isaac Halevi of Cracow

references

Vinograd, Zolkiew 545; Mondschein, Tanya Bibliography (1981), pp. 36-43, no. 2

summary

Second edition of the fundamental exposition of Chabad Chassidism - containing the first appearance of the third section of the Tanya, "Igereth HaTeshuvah." This Zolkiew edition so radically differs from the revised version printed subsequently in Shklov in 1806, that Chassidim refer to it as the “first draft” or “Igereth HaTeshuvah - Mahadura Kama.” See Ch. Liberman, Ohel Rachel, Vol. I, pp. 54-56; S.D. Avtzon, The Tanya - a History (1999) pp. 37-9; J. Mondschein, Siphrei HaHalacha shel Admo”r ha-Zaken–Bibliography (1984) p. 65, n. 5; R. Mahler, Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment (1985) p. 109

ff. (3), 2-74. Opening six leaves expertly repaired, wormholes professionally filled, text slightly affected in places. Modern blind-tooled calf. 8vo

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