Sefer Ketonet Ohr – Ein Ya’akov – Part V on Tractates Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia and Bava Batra. Lvov, Shlomo Yarish Rapaport Press, 1808.
Handwritten owner’s notatio n at the top of the title p age: “This book belongs to R’ Yitzchak David son of Rabbi Moshe of Lelov.” His books and belongings, like those of other progenitors of Chassidic dynasties, are extremely rare and hard to find.
Although the tradition has been almost completely abandoned at present, until the previous generation, almost every study hall in every town held a class in Ein Ya’akov between Minchah and Ma’ariv – and sometimes even after Shacharit . To this day, there are Admo”rim of Lelov that maintain the old tradition and give a class on Ein Ya’akov after Shacharit.
This book was printed at R’ Shlomo Yarish Rapaport’s prominent press. Several years previously, this press printed the sacred book Noam Elimelech , known to have been printed by workers at the press who were among the 36 hidden tzaddikim.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the Admo”r Rabbi Yitzchak David Biderman .
[1], 90, 144 leaf. 18.5 cm.
Moderate condition. Many worming perforations and tunnels. Original leather binding.