Torath Kohanim [Halachic Midrash on Leviticus with commentary “Asirith ha-Eifah” by R. Isaac of Komarno]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

SAFRIN, ISAAC JUDAH JECHIEL.

printer

Löbl Balaban

Place

Lemberg

Publication

1848

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s mark on title. On ff. 3r., 19r., 30r., 37v., 39r., 89v., 91r., 133v., 155v. scholarly marginalia in a petite, cultured hand

references

Vinograd, Lemberg 909

summary

The Chassidic rebbe of Komarno, Isaac Judah Jehiel (1806-1874) excelled equally well in the fields of theology, kabbalah and halacha. The present work is a display of the man’s halachic acumen. With approbations by R. Moses Teitelbaum of Ujhely and R. Meir Eisenstadt of Ungvar. See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 635-636

ff. (2), 158. (Two ff. 54). Waterstained and wormed in places. Unbound. Folio

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