BENJAMIN BEN AARON OF ZALOZCE. Torei Zahav [sermons on the weekly portions of the Pentateuch, and the Books of Lamentations and Esther]

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,200

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author

(CHASSIDISM)

printer

Tzvi Ze’ev Rubinstein

Place

Moghilev on the Dniester

Publication

1816

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printed on blue-tinted paper

references

Vinograd, Moghilev 22

summary

R. Benjamin of Zalozce was a contemporary of the founder of Chasidism, Rabbi Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, and his works, of a homiletical nature, contain many important teachings of the Ba’al Shem Tov. An appreciation of this oft ignored mystic is long overdue

ff. 126 (i.e. 123). Marginal note in a modern hand on f.101v. Stained, wormed, and taped. Modern boards. Sm. 4to

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