Schneersohn, Shmuel (Mahara”sh). Torath Shmuel.

(CHASSIDISM)

(Lubavitch)

Late 19th-century

Hebrew manuscript written in the beautiful, precise hand of R. Shmuel Sofer. Final two leaves in an earlier hand. Inscribed by Rabbi Sholom Rivkin noting that the manuscript is from his father’s library (Rabbi Moshe Dov-Ber Rivkin) and with the latter’s stamps.

A facsimile edition of portions of this very manuscript was published in 1945 under the title Likutei Torah-Torath Shmuel with an introduction by the future Lubavitcher Rebbe R. Menachem Mendel who states that it was written in the hand of “R. Shmuel Sofer, Rosh HaMa’atikim Bezmano.” The final two leaves are in an earlier hand and contain a Ma’amar from the Alter Rebbe from 1805.