Zoth Tihiyeh Lachem Ha’aretz LeGvulotheha Saviv [”This is Your Land with it’s Surrounding Boundaries.”] Map of the Land of Israel prepared by Grand Rabbi Gershon Chanoch Leiner.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF )

Jozefow, 1873

First appearance of the important map prepared by R. Gershon Chanoch Leiner (1839-91) the innovative Chassidic Rebbe of Radzyn. Issued in connection with his commentary to Tractate Keilim, wherein Chapter I Mishnah 6 states that the Land of Israel is holier than all other lands - thus the need for a map clearly delineating its borders. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land pp. 162-64.