Sha’ar Yoseph [ethical sermons]

CHAVER, YOSEPH BEN YITZCHAK EIZIK

Johannisburg, Germany

1852

The author’s personal wide-margined copy, with his scholarly marginal notes. * Bound in at end: Autograph Manuscript, ten leaves (see below). Stamp of the author’s brother, Moshe Rabinowitz.

Vinograd, Johannisburg 6;

Rabbi of Kinishin, the author was the son of R. Yitzchak Eizik Chaver (1789-1852), the prime student of R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov, follower of the Vilna Gaon. See Rabotheinu Shebagolah Vol. I (1996) pp. 9-14. The autograph manuscript bound in at the end of the volume contains a sermon for Rosh Hashanah delivered at Kinishin, 1854; along with eulogies for the author’s father and other prominent rabbis who died at this time (1852-54). Including: R. Aryeh Leib of Kovna, R. Eliezer, Dayan of Horadna and R. Meir Halevi of Brainsk. The author published two eulogies for his father: Nefesh Naki (Warsaw, 1853) and Zion Lanefesh (Johannisburg, 1856). The second eulogy contains much of the material written in this manuscript with variations and expansions in places.