Amaroth Tehoroth…al Sepher Tehilim [Psalms]. With commentary by R. Eliezer Halevi Horowitz of Tarnograd.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(TEHILIM).

printer

D.L. Sklower

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1838

Description

Printed on tinted paper. FIRST EDITION of commentary. Signed by R. Yisroel Halevi Weintraub of Warsaw.

references

Vinograd, Warsaw 167.

summary

The first Chassidic commentary to the Tehilim. A disciple of R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov and R. Elimelech of Lizhensk, R. Eliezer Halevi Horowitz of Tarnogrod (1740-1806) is renowned for his Chassidic work No’am Megadim. See S.H. Porush, Entziklopedia LeChasiduth, Vol. I (1980) cols. 309-315; Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996) p.219.

ff. (2), 67, 59. Stained in places, occasional marginal wormholes. Modern calf. Lg. 4to.

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